GIFT OF 
 
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 S EVEN E SSENTIALS 
 
 TO 
 
 LIFE AND liEALThl 
 
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 ON 
 
 HYGIENE 
 
 "Self preservation is the first law of nature." 
 "To be hygienic, even in spots, may add years to 
 
 one's life." 
 He who improves the health of the people makes 
 
 the nation strong. 
 
 DY 
 
 G. D'ESTIN BALLOU, Opt. D. 
 
 For thirty years student of and 
 Lecturer on Hygiene. 
 
 MODERN HYGIENE PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 Los Anuelbs, California. 
 
OBRMfflfr 
 
 PUBLIC 
 
 HEALTH 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 Copyright. 1S09 
 By G. D. Ballou. 
 
TO THE 
 
 FAITHFUL WORKERS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 CAUSE OF HYGIENE IN EVERY LAND AND 
 
 CLIME, WHO REJOICE MORE IN THE 
 
 PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF 
 
 HUMAN SUFFERING AND 
 
 WOE, THAN IN THE 
 
 POSSESSION 
 
 OF GOLD. 
 
 THIS BOOK IS 
 
 JOYFULLY 
 
 DEDICATED. 
 
 .Qn^QQO 
 
Fig. I— Front View. 
 
Fig. I. Front View of Organs of the Human Body. 
 
 1. 1. — Lungs. St. — Stomach. 
 
 liv. — Liver. g. b. — Gall bladder. 
 
 h. — Heart. Kid. — Kidneys. 
 
 c. — Colon. S. I. — Small intestines. 
 
 Ap. — Appendix. b. — Bladder. 
 
 The lungs overlap the heart and come nearly together. 
 
 The liver overlaps and lies in front of a portion of the 
 stomach. The lower edge is lifted to show gall bladder. 
 
 The colon, which is the last five feet of the bowel, begins at 
 the appendix and goes up and across the body in front of tlie 
 lower portion of the stomach and in front of the kidneys. It 
 is drawn down in this cut to show the kidneys and lower border 
 of stomach. 
 
Fig. II— TJie Diaphragm. 
 
 This cut shows the diaphragm in its relation to the liver, 
 
 spleen, stomach and kidneys, and the bowels 
 
 below and the lungs and heart above. 
 
Fig. II. Explanation. 
 
 The diaphragm, the organ of breathing and the leading uuiseie 
 of the body, is attached to the inner lower border of the ribs 
 and erowns up like a dome over the liver, stomach and spleen, 
 with the heart resting down lightly on top of the dome and tiie 
 lower border of the lungs slipping down on each side of the 
 dome between it and the ribs. 
 
 Tliis appears i)artly in the right lung, but the left lung is 
 cut away at the top of tlie dome so as not to obscure the loca- 
 tion of the stomach, which is dotted in uneler the diaphragm on 
 the left side of the body, being drawn away from the ribs to 
 show the spleen (sp.). The liver is dotted in on the right side 
 and the lower border lifted to show location of gall bladder. 
 The colon is drawn down to show the kidneys. 
 
 To appreciate diaphragm action, read pp. 45-47 and 162-lG(i, 
 studying the cut as you read. 
 
 If the lower front border of the lungs were allowed to appear 
 in their true jiosition they would spread inward and downward, 
 covering all but the central and lower portion of this dome of 
 the diaphragm. 
 
Fig. Ill— Rear View. 
 
 Shows location of kidneys up under short ribs. 
 
Fig. IV- Water Filter. 
 
 Fig. V- Water Still. 
 
 H. — A sponge pressed into a Iron kettle for a base, 
 
 liole in the bottom of a pan. Upper part copper. 
 
 g. — Gravel, 
 c. — Charcoal. 
 
 8ee pages 49 and 50 to learn how to make one of these useful 
 articles. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Pages. 
 
 I\)R i:\VOKI) S- 1- 
 
 (II AFTER I— "THK FIRST MAN IS OF THE 
 
 EARTH EARTHY" . . . 13- lo 
 
 CHAPTER II— THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS . . 1(5- :'.7 
 CHAPTER III— T-HE LAWS OF LIFE . . .38- (ill 
 CHAPTER IV— DRUGS. STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS 
 
 AND PATENT MEDICINES . 61- 7G 
 
 CHAPTER V— GIFTS OF HEALINGS AND MIRA- 
 CLES 77-84 
 
 CHAPTER VI— DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES . . 85- 90 
 CHAPTER VII— MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL 
 
 REMEDIES .... 91-150 
 
 CHAPTER VIII— PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DIS- 
 EASE 151-19:2 
 
 CHAPTER LK— TREATMENT OF DISEASES . . 193-2(59 
 
 CHAPTER X— POINTERS 270-340 
 
 CHAPTER XI— WHAT SHALL WE CALL THIS 
 
 SYSTEMS 341-349 
 
 CHAPTER XII— HABITS 350-369 
 
 CHAPTER XIIT— LIFE AND LABOR . . . . 370-378 
 
 CHAPTKR XIV— TRANSFORMATIONS . . . 379-387 
 
 CHAPTER XV— REFORMS AND EXTREMES . . 388-397 
 
 THK AFTERWORD 398-400 
 
 APPENDIX 401-411 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 Page 214, 9th line read '*bare" instead of "fare." 
 
 Page 238, 22nd line leave out ' 'effort. ' ' 
 
 Page 297, in the paragraph on "The Depurating 
 System" read "food" for "fluid:" 
 
 Page 329, omit last two lines at close of 1st paragraph 
 and after "greater things" read "accomplished 
 than have yet been done." 
 
"Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayest 
 prosper and he in health even as thy soul prospereth. ' ' 
 — John. 
 
 "For bodily exercise prohieth for a little time; but 
 Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise 
 of the life that now is and of that which is to come." 
 —Paul. 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 There is still too wide a chasni between the people 
 and the medical profession. The only way to narrow 
 this chasm is to narrow that other gulf that lies be- 
 tween both classes and a true knowledge of Hygiene. 
 The Ancient Greeks had a goddess Hygieia, who was 
 fabled to preside over the health of the people. Hence 
 the moderns have named that science which treats 
 of the preservation of health, Hygiene. 
 
 Very few today even among educated professional 
 people have a well classified knowledge of Hygiene. 
 The great majority are still feeling their way toward 
 the light. 
 
 It is the privilege of every human being to kncnv 
 all that is possible for him to comprehend, of his own 
 being and body and his relations to this life and world. 
 It is necessary to know something about ourselves, to 
 prevent that useless worry and wear and waste, that 
 so soon destroys all the harmony of existence, ren- 
 ders us of little account, and ends in the cutting short 
 of a miserable existence. To be hygienic even in spots 
 may add years to one's life and these years may be 
 years of joyful usefulness. 
 
 This is an age of progress. Knowledge in every 
 science and art, and concerning every question of 
 importance to mankind is increasing. The questions 
 of hygiene are receiving a large share of attention. 
 But there is much confusion of thought in the theory, 
 and much conflict in the practice of health principles. 
 
 2 
 
10 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 On almost ever}^ point some are lined up on one ex- 
 treme and some at the other. It is the mission of 
 science to put in order, to simplify, all knowledge so 
 that the common mind can easily grasp and apply 
 sound principles to its own happiness and welfare 
 and to the welfare of all who come within the sphere 
 of its influence. 
 
 A kind, generous sentiment demands that scientific 
 knowledge be put into the language of the common 
 people so that those Avho would become proficient in 
 aiding the distressed and afflicted, can readily under- 
 stand and apply the Laws of Life and Health to those 
 cases that through ignorance and neglect have fallen 
 victims to disease and suffering. The past ages have 
 not witnessed on the part of the so-called scientists 
 any very marked desire or effort to prevent suffering 
 by making the people self helpful. The effort has 
 rather been in the other direction. The arts and 
 sciences have been hidden too much under the verbiage 
 of dead languages, thus denying to the people the 
 clear understanding of some things that would have 
 opened the way for a full unfettered progress. This 
 effort at occultism has greatly crippled even the men 
 of science. But at the present time a strong tide is 
 setting toward true methods of education. 
 
 In the following pages the writer has purposed to 
 set forth the most advanced effort yet made in the 
 way of classifying the facts of hygiene. Forty-five 
 \ears' experience in the health work has revealed the 
 necessity for some systematic standard around which 
 all sensible minds could rally, and with that standard 
 go forth to greater conquests. No claim is laid to 
 the discovery of any new, revolutionizing facts. A 
 
FOREAVORD 11 
 
 thorough simple classification of all health agencies 
 and a proper emphasis laid on some of the neglected 
 things, is the goal to which the writer has aspired. 
 He would call especial attention to the points made 
 under "The Law of Rest" and "Mental Causes and 
 Mental Remedies." So far as the author knows, these 
 important truths have not hitherto been popularly set 
 forth and emphasized in any adequate manner. He 
 does not suppose that he has touched every point, or 
 perhaps all the main points, in all their bearings. The 
 aim has been to bring out enough to set other active 
 minds at work along these, hitherto, somewhat mixed 
 lines. The author would not overlook the work of 
 hundreds of scientific men who are by far his su- 
 periors in technical knowledge. It is to them and the 
 Bible and the spiritual instruction of his religious 
 teachers, that he owes the foundation of what little he 
 has attained. But he begs permission to emphasize 
 the importance of a correct standard of classification 
 in order to permit of still further untrammeled prog- 
 ress in the application of the Science of Health. 
 
 The subjects herein set forth are world wide in 
 their importance and as inexhaustible as life itself. 
 When the right basis is reached in any science, human 
 minds and energies are liberated and the field suddenly 
 enlarged, and those minds not bound by false systems 
 will be the first to feel the impulses of a ne\N mo\ t- 
 ment. A story is told of Edison, the great electrical 
 inventor, which illustrates the value of original un- 
 biased research. Some one wrote and asked him if 
 he did not feel the lack of a thorough mathematical 
 training. His reply was: "Why, no! If I had taken 
 what is called a thorough mathematical training 1 
 
12 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 would have found out that the things I have accom- 
 plished could not be done." Some of the old standards 
 of thought and practice, especially the doctrine that 
 poison drugs cure, must fall into disuse with the ad- 
 \ance of more rational methods. 
 
 The system we have set forth is not new and un- 
 tried. It is in use today in the hands of thousands of 
 physicians and nurses all over the world. It is simple 
 and practical. It is not partial, but complete. 
 
 This little volume cannot set forth all the minutiae 
 and detail of all hygienic procedures. But the prin- 
 ciples are here and a large number of practical illus- 
 trations showing their ai^plication to many diseased 
 conditons. It is hoped that the principles are so 
 clearly stated and applied that they will form a basis 
 for the restoration to health of thousands of persons 
 who are just eking out a miserable existence, because 
 of being, perhaps, only slightly out of harmony with 
 those laws which should govern the human body. The 
 proof of every i)oint lies in the doing. Practice these 
 suggestions faithfully and patiently for a few months 
 and you will learn to know that they arc correct. 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 1, 1909. 
 
t4 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 The First Man is of the Earth Earthy. * ' 
 
 Look forth for a few moments on the face of nature 
 and witness the stupendous workings of creati\ e 
 power. Consider how the elements about us — sun- 
 shine, air, water and earth^unite and produce every 
 form of vegetable life ; and then how every form of 
 animate existence subsists on vegetation just because 
 these primordial elements are acting in harmony with 
 the word of an omnipotent Creator and producing sus- 
 tenance for all forms of higher life. Whence come the 
 substances found in the vegetable world — the cellu- 
 lose, starch, sugar, fats, gluten, etc.? Are they in the 
 soil? or atmosphere? or water? or sunlight? Where 
 are they? They are not the result of any ordinary 
 chemical action between these elementary things. The 
 mystery of creative power working through the com- 
 bined action of these four elements has not yet been 
 fathomed. It is as easy to understand how food ele- 
 ments may be changed into thought and action and 
 feeling and purpose, as how inanimate nature can com- 
 bine and ])r(i(liicc the food elements. Consider with 
 all }-our finite attributes the infinite power that can 
 produce animate out of inanimate things; thai can 
 create life in all its forms "so that the things that arc 
 seen were not made of things that do appear.'" Sun- 
 light, air, writer and earth <"irdaino(l 1)\' tlu' iurmite 
 
14 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 power of our Heavenly Father, plus another mani- 
 festation of His power and love, and the results are 
 man and all his surroundings. 
 
 "God said. Let light be, and light was." "And God 
 said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding 
 seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind." 
 "And the earth brought forth, and God saw it was 
 good." ''And God said. Let the waters bring forth 
 abundantly the moving creature that hath life." "And 
 God said, Let the earth bring the living creature after 
 its kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the 
 earth after his kind, and it was so." "God said, Let 
 us make man in our image and after our likeness, and 
 let them have dominion — so God created man in his 
 own image and after his likeness." (Genesis.) 
 
 This was creation; and this Creator ordained the 
 laws of dependence by which all animate existence is 
 sustained by the workings of his own power. Thus 
 the laws of nature are as truly divine as is the work- 
 manship of his own hands, or even as the law be- 
 spoke from Sinai. Later we shall be able to define the 
 laws of nature which govern our relations to Life and 
 Health. 
 
 By these laws man eats the immediate products of 
 of the inanimate world, fruits, grains, vegetables ; 
 drinks the inanimate water, breathes the inanimate air, 
 warms himself with the sunlight, moves, and feels, 
 and thinks, and worships. So that the primordial ele- 
 ments, by this mighty God with whom we all must 
 deal, whether we will or not, are changed into emotion, 
 feeling, thought and praise ; and the very inanimate 
 elements thru man a4-e made to speak the infinite 
 
OF THE EARTH EARTHY 15 
 
 praises of God. Thus, "All thy works shall praise thee, 
 O Lord, and thy saints shall bless thee.'' 
 
 It is but a short time since, when none of earth's 
 present inhabitants existed only as ideas in the mind 
 of God ; only as mere' items in God's unfolding plan. 
 But God has wrought through his laws, even tho 
 they have been perverted, and mankind is here a pro- 
 duct of- this earthly environment. 
 
 There comes into this world according to the law 
 of its kind a little helpless human creature of only a 
 few pounds weight. A few years of patient feeding 
 on the surrounding elements brings forth a being of 
 ponderous weight, full of physical and mental power, 
 moved by lofty purposes, swayed by mighty impulses ; 
 capable of self-direction, with the possibility of per- 
 petuating existence for an indefinite period; and able 
 to invent new combinations by dealing wisely with 
 the surrounding substances and forces in nature. This 
 is man. Whence came his substance and impulses? 
 "The first man is of the earth earthy." God can and 
 does organize matter to live and act ancl feel and think 
 and ofTer praise. And if this life is properly used, 
 according to the demands of divine law, there will one 
 day open to the faithful ones the limitless vistas of 
 the life to come, which will be only an amplification, 
 a new and glorified edition of this life of discipline and 
 sacrifice. 
 
CHAPTER IL 
 The Seven Essentials. 
 
 We come now to consider those things in nature 
 upon which we immediately depend for life and health. 
 Civilized people, in any part of the world, if asked to 
 name the absolute essentials to healthy existence, 
 would enumerate those which are given below, and 
 if pressed for other necessary conditions, would find 
 none to name. They are Sunlight, Air, Water, Food, 
 Clothing, Exercise, and Rest. The great Creator saw 
 fit to so constitute man and his relationships that 
 these seven things would include everything neces- 
 sary to the maintenance of life ; and all that is neces- 
 sary to the regaining of one's health, except miracles. 
 Artificialism, man's disposition to invent, has quite 
 full\- hidden from our eyes the great truth that they 
 constitute the complete environment of life and health. 
 
 As we now progress, the reader will see that there 
 is not a hygienic procedure nor a true remedial agent 
 that is not properly classified under one of these seven 
 heads. He will even come to see that the science of 
 surgery is but a sub-head of the great Law of Rest. 
 
 We will now proceed to consider each of these es- 
 sentials and try to grasp something of the character 
 of each as a ]>art of the great system which we call 
 nature. In ilie next chapter we will study the Law 
 <)f onr' relationship to each of these essentials. 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 17 
 
 Sunlight. 
 
 Sunlight is the strongest stimulant, the mightiest 
 vitalize!" in all nature. It is the agent of that power 
 that moves the world and all things therein. All the 
 phenomena of nature are regulated by it, both in rela- 
 tion to other worlds as well as the local relationship 
 of things here. The winds, tides, ocean currents, suc- 
 cession of day and night, evaporation and distribution 
 of moisture, and all the variations of climate, are pro- 
 duced and controlled by the sun. The variations of 
 plant and animal life, and the race variations of the 
 human family are due to this mighty ruler of the day. 
 No wonder the benighted minds of other ages wor- 
 shipped the sun after they had refused to listen to the 
 voice of the Creator. 
 
 Modern experiment has demonstrated that sunlight 
 is the great purifier, the -destroyer of germs in air, 
 water and earth. What are germs? Generally speak- 
 ing, they are low ])erverterl forms of vegetable life, 
 with few exceptions, that exist where there is moist- 
 ure, warmth and darkness, and flourish on decay, and 
 in turn furnish the seed for the death and decay of 
 vegetable as well as animal substances. But only a 
 few of them are poisonous, or generate poisons in their 
 growth that are. dangerous to human life. 
 
 See how common mold perishes in the direct rays 
 of the sun. It has been demonstrated that these direct 
 rays will in a few hours destroy the well-known germs 
 of typhoid fever, cholera and tuberculosis (consump- 
 tion). Just how sunlight destroys, we cannot tell. 
 any more than we can ex]ilain how it encourages 
 higher plant life and animal life. 
 
 Out in nature the general pm-ification and \itali7.a- 
 
18 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 tion is being carried on by the common, every-day 
 processes which are in constant operation all about us. 
 Sunlight evaporates water from earth and ocean. The 
 air bears it aloft. The winds, set in motion by the 
 heat of the sun, carry the vapor to the earth's remotest 
 bounds. Opposing winds of varying temperatures 
 meet and the vapor condenses and falls to earth, viv- 
 ifying every form of plant and animal existence, and 
 then runs away to the sea, or immediately evaporates 
 to be retirrned again in blessing as before. And with 
 it all, the mighty radiant energy of the sun extends 
 its vitalizing activity to all nature, destroying disease 
 elements and energizing all other forms of life. 
 
 Imagine, if you can, the power necessary to lift all 
 the waters of all the rivers on earth a mile or more 
 above sea level ; and set all the winds on earth blowing. 
 We dam up the streams at a few places, and we set 
 up windmills, and we measure the results in what we 
 call horse-powers. But how infinitesimal is the portion 
 we utilize compared with the total energy manifested 
 by the sun. None but the Creator knows the extent 
 of creative power in requires to run even this little one 
 of His worlds. 
 
 All forms of heat and light and fire and electricity 
 and motion are but varying forms of sun energy. 
 
 Take your strong magnifying or burning glass and 
 you can soon convert its direct rays into fire. Is there 
 any difTerence between this fire and that kindled by a 
 match? Harness the dynamo to the water-wheel and 
 you soon have this motion which is a direct product 
 of sun power changed into electric energy, heat and 
 light. 
 
 It is the opinion of the writer that all forms of chem- 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 19 
 
 ical action and chemical heat and electric production 
 are due to the influence of sun energy. The sun itself 
 in its color productions in the plant world alone is 
 exercising an almost infinite degree of vital chemical 
 power. How much the laws of cohesion and gravita- 
 tion which are controlled by sun energy have to do 
 with holding the different chemical substances in con- 
 tact, and how much it has to do with producing some 
 of these substances, we leave to the judgment of the 
 reader. It is our opinion that if sun power were with- 
 drawn and chaos reigned, chemical action would cease 
 on this planet. 
 
 Whence comes the wood and the coal and the oil 
 which we use to supplement the sunlight in winter? 
 The following experiment will show you. Take a pot 
 of fifty pounds of dry earth. Plant in it a peach pit. 
 Now apply water and give sunlight and air free access 
 to your combination. When the peach tree has grown 
 to a respectable size, take it out of the earth, saving 
 every atom of the soil. The scales may show that you 
 have fifty pounds of peach-tree. Dry the earth again 
 and you still have fifty pounds of soil. Distil this 
 peach wood, separating the essential oils, creosote, 
 wood alcohol and charcoal. Whence came these sub- 
 stances of the tree life? There is but one answer; 
 they are a vital combination of sun energy, air and 
 water and a little ash from the earth. So of the coal 
 and oil we find buried in the earth. They are the re- 
 mains of the forests which other generations of men 
 beheld and admired. It is true, the soil lost a small 
 amount of its elements, but the tree returned as much 
 in weight as it took. So it does not take a great stretch 
 of mind to see that all vegetable and animal substances 
 
20 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 and all heat and light and all life-producing elements 
 come to us thru a combination of sun energy with 
 water and air operating upon the soil. And the bulk of 
 the solid substances in the plant world come from sun- 
 light, air and water. The agriculturist adds much to 
 the productiveness of the soil by turning under the 
 growing crop which had taken most of its life and 
 energy from the sunlight and air. If he should con- 
 tinue this process of returning all again to the soil, he 
 would in a few years have such a condition of the soil 
 as would make it impossible for him to produce any 
 crop because of too much fertility. Whence came this 
 fertility? Chiefly, we say again, from sun energy and 
 air and water. But the mighty miracle of the creati\ e 
 processes being enacted before our eyes constantly, we 
 can neither fathom nor understand. 
 
 Again, this same subtle combination of sunlight, air 
 and water paints all the glorious panorama of nature 
 in all their vivid and somber hues, from the rainbow 
 to the brilliant variegated flowers. 
 
 Rut there is a sad side to this whole question. When 
 creation came fresh from the hand of God, there was 
 naught but life in all these vSeven Essentials. The at- 
 mosphere was tlic breath of life; the water of Eden 
 was the water of life; and the food was the bread of 
 life. Their clothing was the halo of light and glory. 
 Exercise, both physical and mental, was the highest 
 manifestation of human life, and the rest of Eden was 
 that spiritual rest which comes from fellowship and 
 coninnmion with tlie Eather himself, who is the source 
 of life. There could be neither death nor pain in such 
 an environment. But when God let fall the curse for 
 man's sin. he put death iti close relation to each of 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 21 
 
 tliose things. So now there is death in the sun-stroke, 
 there is death in the water, and air, and food, and in 
 close connection with the other essentials. Hence it 
 became necessary to know the hygiene of life in order 
 to preserve existence for even a reasonable length of 
 time. This shows why the theory of some faddists must 
 Ije false, who occasionally proclaim that all that is 
 necessary to live a thousand years is to eat and drink 
 and dress and exercise properly. They forget or dis- 
 believe that man and all nature are under the curse, 
 and so they talk at random. 
 
 A ir. 
 
 In the oldest book in the world, air, uncontaminated 
 by the curse, is called the "breath of life." "And the 
 Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 
 and man became a living soul." And of the animal cre- 
 ation at the time of the flood it says: "And all flesh 
 died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and cattle 
 and beast and of every creeping thing that creepeth 
 upon the earth, and every man, all in whose nostrils 
 was the breath of life of all that was in the drv land 
 died." 
 
 Of all things in nature, air is the most immediately 
 necessary to life. One could live for days in darkness 
 without food or water, but only for a brief moment 
 without air. Air is absorbed in the lungs in a manner 
 somewhat similar to the absorption of digested food 
 in the alimentary canal. 1'he breath we are taking in 
 at this instant remains in our lungs till three or four 
 more full breaths are taken. This all depends on the 
 depth of the inspirations and expirations. This keeps 
 the breath in the lungs until the oxygen has a chance 
 
22 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 to pass thru the thin membranes of the lungs into 
 the blood, and some of the poisons have a chance to 
 escape from the blood and are carried out in the ex- 
 hausted air. This process changes the blood from 
 a dark red to a light crimson color. The oxygen seems 
 to be the all-essential thing in this vital process. Just 
 "the how" of this change none but the Creator could 
 explain. 
 
 Sometimes when the lungs are nearly filled up with 
 the products of inflammation, as in pneumonia, pure 
 oxygen is given for hours until the lungs begin to clear 
 themselves, and thus the life is sustained, as it could 
 not have been done by air alone, only one-fifth of which 
 is oxygen. 
 
 The atmosphere is densest at the level of the sea, 
 being much more rare at the tops of the highest moun- 
 tains. This accounts for the rapidity and other diffi- 
 culties of breathing, nose-bleed, deafness, etc., experi- 
 enced at great altitudes. 
 
 The air is capable of holding much moisture in the 
 form of vapor. The more humidity the greater the suf- 
 fering from heat, and the greater the sense of chilliness 
 if it is cold. The temperature of greatest comfort in 
 a moist atmosphere is 65 to 70 degrees F. In a strictly 
 dry atmosphere a temperature as high as a hundred is 
 not Qppressive, nor is zero weather with moderate exer- 
 cise seriously uncomfortable. 
 
 Often the air becomes laden with dust or smoke or 
 disease germs. This condition is most likely to prevail 
 in cities, near swamps, and along the great lines of 
 travel. 
 
 All these things have their influence on the health 
 of mankind. All such diseases as chickenpox, scarlet 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 23 
 
 fever, measles, mumps, smallpox, pneumonia and lung 
 consumption are disseminated thru germs contained 
 in the air. So that that which in its purity was the 
 "breath of life," may become the atmosphere of death. 
 
 Water. 
 
 Water exists in nature in three forms, solid, liquid 
 and gaseous. The most common form in which we see 
 it is the liquid. As vapor it varies from the invisible 
 to the steam and cloud forms. The solid form, ice, is 
 more appreciated in warm climates and seasons than 
 where, and when, it forms naturally. The change from 
 liquid to solid takes place at a temperature of 32 de- 
 grees F. Water reaches its greatest density at 39 de- 
 grees F. — that is, a cubic inch weighs more at this tem- 
 perature than at a higher or lower degree. Belov*' 
 and above this temperature the volume increases so 
 that the same amount by measure weighs less than at 
 39 degrees. Above this temperature it continues to 
 expand and exaporate until it disappears as liquid and 
 floats away invisibly on the buoyant atmosphere. When 
 it reaches the higher cooler regions of the air it is 
 partly condensed and appears in all the variety of the 
 beautiful cloud forms which we all so much admire. 
 The warmer the atmosphere the greater amount of 
 invisible vapor it will sustain. In the high regions 
 of air a cold current meeting a warm moisture laden 
 current rapidly condenses the vapor and a fall of rain 
 is the result. If there is a violent conflict among the 
 winds electricity is generated by the friction and we 
 have a thunderstorm. If the cold air current is ex- 
 tremely cool snow or hail will be formed and if the 
 lower air is cool it may reach the earth in the form 
 
24 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 of a snowstorm. Hail is frequently formed of such 
 size and weight that it reaches the earth with a very 
 damaiiinj^ effect. The coolness of the evening air set- 
 tling down over the surface of the earth causes a 
 condensation of moisture in the form of dew. A very 
 remarkable phenomenon is seen in the fact that rapid 
 evaporation will produce intense cold, and the more 
 ra])id tlie evaporation the more intense the cold. This 
 is observed in a more marked manner in the case of 
 other fluids as ether, ethyl chloride, chloroform, alco- 
 hol, ammonia, gasoline, and other volatile liquids. The 
 existence of mankind and animals on the earth dej)ends 
 on this law of evaporation and condensation. 
 
 At the sea level water boils, changes into vapor most 
 rapidly, at a temperature of 212 degrees. At the higher 
 elevations this change is reached at a very much lower 
 temperature. Tt becomes exceedingly difificult to boil 
 vegetables at an altitude of ten thousand feet just be- 
 cause the water boils at a temperature too low to soften 
 the vegetable cells. When water boils it can be heated 
 no hotter because evaporation carries away the heat 
 as fast as it is formed above that temeprature and 
 so an equilibrium is maintained. Hence enough fire 
 to maintain the boiling is just as eiBcient in cooking 
 as a greater amount. 
 
 Going back to the temperature of 39 degrees F. ; 
 below this the water begins to expand and at 32 de- 
 grees congeals and floats above the liquid. If the 
 density increased from 39 degrees down to freezing 
 then ice would be heavier than water and would sink 
 to the bottom and never thaw out with the summer 
 heat known in the temperate zone. 
 
 Water holds the heat imparted to it by the sun's 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 25 
 
 rays much longer than solid substances. This ac- 
 counts for the evenness of ocean climates which are 
 tempered by the circulation of ocean currents. These 
 ocean curr-ents may be observed in miniature in a ket- 
 tle of water that is heating or in one that is cooling 
 which contains a few visible floating particles held in 
 suspension in the fluid. The persistency with which 
 the water retains heat may be illustrated by setting a 
 deep metal vessel of boiling water on a block of ice 
 to cool. After some time when the water next the ice 
 has become quite cold, the surface will be found too 
 hot for the hands. 
 
 How the air can bear aloft and sustain the hundreds 
 of tons of water in the form of vapor and how the 
 water can be changed into these varying forms and 
 how the sun energy manages all these and other phys- 
 ical relationships we have not mentioned are but a 
 few of the mysteries of creative power. 
 
 The water of Eden before the curse fell on the earth 
 was the water of life. Now it is not always such, for it 
 often contains the germs of death, as well as mineral 
 substances not conducive to health. 
 
 "When mankind and the world are once more restored 
 to the Eden state man will again drink of the river of 
 the water of life which proceeds from the throne of 
 God. 
 
 Pure water is the greatest resolvent known to man. 
 Tt has much to do with the digestion of food and with 
 the maintenance of life in the human body, four fifths 
 of which is water. This fluid is composed of two 
 invisible gases, one of which, hydrogen, burns with 
 a fierce heat; the other, oxygen, constituting one-third, 
 is the greatest known supporter of combustion ; so 
 
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26 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 much so that a fine steel wire tipped with burning 
 sulpliur will consume in it with startling brilliancy, 
 while the oxygen itself does not burn as we commonly 
 understand the term. Pure w^ater is called in chem-' 
 istry H-O, w^hich means by volume hydrogen two parts 
 and oxygen one part. By weight hydrogen is one 
 ninth and oxygen eight ninths. 
 
 Absolutely pure water is difficult to find in nature. 
 Rain water falling over the ocean and on high moun- 
 tains away from the cities, and at a time when there 
 are no forest fires, is almost perfectly pure. During 
 the last part of a long rain storm, the water having 
 washed the air out, is generally quite pure. Distilled 
 water is practically pure, and the process of distilla- 
 tion is very simple. Steam from water is condensed 
 and you have pure distilled water. When the steamer 
 or kettle cover is removed from the boiling pot, dis- 
 tilled w'ater drips from it. This is all that rain is, 
 vapor of water condensed, simply distilled water con- 
 taining a few impuritie'S it has washed out <i the 
 atmosphere. 
 
 This rain water falling on soil, containing lime or 
 other mineral elements, dissolves the minerals and be- 
 comes "hard." Both wells and springs give forth hard 
 water. Water drawn from granite or slate is quite 
 likely to be soft or free frc^m minerals: but w^ell-water 
 is liable to be very badly contaminated if located in 
 the vicinity of human liabitations. Wells driven to 
 a great depth are free from germ infection, but if in a 
 limestone or other mineral region will be hard. Surface 
 wells are a catch-all for toads and frogs and snails and 
 worms and bugs of every description; and if within 
 fifty to one hundred feet of a cess-pool, ])rivy vault or 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 27 
 
 barnyard where animal excrement accumulates are 
 almost sure to be full < f ,s^erms from the bowel dis- 
 charges — Bacillus Coli — which are a cause of very se- 
 rious sickness, in the way of Peritonitis, obscure fevers 
 and stomach and bowel difficulties, and may contain 
 typhoid germs. Especially is this true when the wells 
 run low. Once in a great while a well may be found 
 which has a vein of good water passing right through 
 it. Such a well is much safer than others. 
 
 The water that milch cows drink from polluted pools 
 and streams often conveys disease germs to the milk. 
 The flesh of hogs fed on tannery refuse has an unbear- 
 able odor and taste even to the one who is accustomed 
 to eating pork. If musty grain is fed to hens the eggs 
 will taste musty. If a nursing mother drinks freely of 
 beer her babe will lie in a drunken stu})()r and good 
 authorities assert that the appetite for strong drink 
 nia\- thus be produced and fostered. There is no doubt 
 that corrupt foods and drinks corrupt the tiesh of the 
 animal and all its prodticts as well the secretions as the 
 excretions. It is not reasonable to suppose that an 
 animal could long take in corrupt food and drink with- 
 out being weakened to the extent that its system 
 would fail to destroy the corruption taken in and per- 
 mit some of it to pass out in the natural secretions 
 of the body. In \iew of these facts ))ure water only 
 sh' uld be ])rovide(l for both mankind and animals. 
 How to obtain i)ure water in sufficient supply is one 
 of the greatest problems of the age. and \et it can 
 be easily done with a little care and ex|)ense, as we 
 shall see in the next chapter. 
 
28. ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Food. 
 
 There arc tive classes of food substances which 
 are perfectly adapted to the five departments of the 
 great digestive system of the body. These substances 
 are: proteids or albumenoids, starches, sugars, fats 
 and mineral salts, beside the waste or undigestible 
 portions. Starches and sugars are now generally classi- 
 fied together under the name carbohydrates, because 
 they both enter the blood as sugar. We have thought 
 best to retain the old classification because they enter 
 the body as separate substances. The difference is a 
 mere technicality. 
 
 The i)roteids are chieHy converted into muscle, nerve, 
 and brain. The best examples of this food element are 
 the gluten of the grains, the white cf eggs, and lean 
 flesh. The foods which are rich in it are wheat, rye, 
 oats, peas, beans, lentils and nuts, and some kinds 
 of rice. In wheat-growing countries children often 
 chew wheat and make "gum" of it. This gum is as 
 nearly pure gluten as can be obtained, with some parti- 
 cles of bran. In peas, beans, and nuts it is called pro- 
 teid ; in lean tlesh fibrin, and albumen in the white of 
 eggs, but it is essentially the same in all. 
 
 Starch is the commonest of all food elements. It is 
 found in all grains, fruits and vegetables. Potatoes are 
 rich in it. In the process of digestion starch is con- 
 verted into sugar and acts as a natural energizer on 
 all the nerve cells and muscle tissues of the body. This 
 form of food energy is that which gives warmth, force 
 and vivacity to the whole body. Some of" it is changed 
 into and stored up as fat in the body. ' 
 
 The fats include all forms of animal and vegetable 
 oils whether semi-solid or liciuid. Most of the former 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 29 
 
 while they may be classified as food are very objec- 
 tional)lc because of their impurities. The same is true 
 of many other animal substances, '['he ofifice of this 
 kind of food is to produce warmth, and lubricate the 
 various tissues. 
 
 Sugar is found in various forms. 'Jdie fruits contain 
 a very wholesome kind which is produced by sun- 
 light ripening- the starch. Sugar is an energy and heat 
 producer. Honey is a very good article for occasional 
 use. Cane sugar, which is the ordinary sugar sold 
 for domestic use. is changed into fruit sugar before 
 it can be taken up as nutrition by the blood. 
 
 The mineral salts are found in all food substances, 
 especially the whole grains and green foods. They 
 are the substances from which the bones, teeth, nails 
 and hair are produced. .Milk contains all these ele- 
 ments in liquid form perfectly adapted to the wants of 
 the babe, provided the mother is in health, and properly 
 nourished. The only other complete food is wheat. 
 Fresh eggs from healthy fowls come pretty near being 
 a perfect food. The principal thing they lack is waste 
 material to provide bulk. 
 
 The body takes care of these food elements in the 
 following order if they are properly prepared in the 
 nioulli. The saliva digests cooked starch in the mouth, 
 and in the stomach for a short time after the food is 
 swallowed, but does not necessarily complete the pro- 
 cess. I'ruit sugars are assimilated in the stomach. The 
 gastric juice in the stomach digests all forms of albu- 
 menoids. The bile from the li\cr begins the digestion 
 of all forms of fats in the small intestines. They under- 
 go no digestive change in the stomach. The pancreatic 
 fluid continues this work and in connection with the 
 
30 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 intestinal fluids digests cane sugar and raw starch and 
 finishes up the digestion of all the other food elements. 
 hVuit sugars enter the blood with little or ncf digestion. 
 This accounts for the exhilaration and restfulness that 
 follows the taking of a draught of fruit juice when one 
 is weary. 
 
 Science has said little of the digestion of the bone 
 making material. It is the opinion of the writer that 
 it is separated out all through the digestive process, 
 and especially prepared for final assimilation by the 
 action of the oxygen of the water and air. Some cases 
 where the free drinking of distilled water has produced 
 marked changes in the nature of the nails and hair in 
 a few weeks seem to prove this. Distilled or soft water 
 has not exhausted its resolvent properties on minerals 
 in the earth, as is true of hard water. Hence it is 
 capable of handling the mineral element in the food. 
 
 After the food leaves the stomach the work of as- 
 similation or absorption goes on in the small intestines 
 and continues to increase until all is absorbed that can 
 be cared for. This thin liquid material thus absorbed, 
 is taken up by the lacteals and venous absorbents and 
 carried into the venous circulation. The veins carry 
 it to the liver where the whole mass undergoes the 
 process of further digestion and partial purification. 
 From the liver it is drawn forward to the heart. The 
 heart pumps it onward into the lungs where coming- 
 in contact with the oxygen from the air the nutrition 
 in the blood is fully prepared to carry on the work 
 of building up every class of tissue in the body. When 
 the blood reaches the lungs the sugar and fats have 
 entirely disappeared from it. From the lungs the 
 bright arterial blood is borne forward by the pulsations 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 31 
 
 of the heart, and by a process as marvelous as anything 
 in the universe, each class of building material is at- 
 tracted from the blood, stopping at just the place it is 
 wanted. The white blood corpuscles live and travel 
 in the blood current, devouring the disease germs 
 which they meet with^ and like the water amoeba they 
 seem to have an individual existence. 
 
 h is a complex and marvelous process by which 
 the life in the plants is changed into animal life, and 
 we have hardly touched the subject with the tips ot 
 our fingers, but this is all we liave space inr in this 
 book. 
 
 Clothing 
 
 Clothing includes our garments for modesty and com- 
 fort as well as the house in which we live. Protection 
 from the elements is the thought. Before sin entered 
 this world man needed no clothing Init the halo of 
 light. He was crowned with glory. The climates 
 of earth had not yet been broken up by the new dis- 
 tribution of land and mountain chains and oceans, as 
 it was at the time of the great flood ; so man needed 
 no protection from the elements. Hence clothing at 
 the beginning was not to be reckoned as an essential 
 to life like the other things we arc dealing with, but 
 became a necessity only on account of the changed 
 climatic relations. There are a few locations on earth 
 where almost ideal temperature conditions prevail ; 
 where ocean temperatures and tropical conditions 
 modify the atmosphere until onl}' the forest shades 
 are needed for ])rotcction against the direct rays of 
 the sun ; where only the lightest covering is needed 
 at nicfht. and onlv the liirht weight uarment of modostv 
 
32 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 by day. I^>ut such climates breed death through the 
 malarial and other fever infections due to insect bites, 
 and with a perverted race that needs to be kept hus- 
 tling to secure the necessities of existence in order that 
 they may be kept out of mischief, the ideal tempera- 
 ture conditions alone, do not minister to the well- 
 being of mankind. Tt is better that the race be scat- 
 tered in the inhos])itable regions of the earth and be 
 compelled to use their ingenuity and energies in caring 
 for their wants. The compulsions of our environment 
 are not an unmitigated evil by any means. Think of 
 the develoi)ment of mental and physical power that is 
 forced upon the race through this one item alone of 
 ]>reparing ])ri)tectii)n from the elements. The ma- 
 terials exist e\er\-where, and man is the better morally, 
 mentally and ])hysically for the necessities that com- 
 ])el development. 
 
 Exercise. 
 
 The record of man's endowment as master of 
 creation says that "The Lord God took the man and 
 ])ut him in the garden of Eden t(^ dress it and to keep 
 it."" And after he had lost his first estate and was 
 shut out of the garden, part of the fiat of his future 
 existence was. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou 
 eat bread till tliou return unto the earth." Again 
 wliere the ri'cord is gi\en of a renewed heaven and 
 earth, and a redeemed race over in the future state 
 as found in Isa. <^5, we read. "They shall build houses 
 and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and eat 
 tlie fruit of them." So by the divine ordination man 
 is made for ])hysical labor. The fact that some men 
 are "1)0111 tired"' does not justif\- inactivity. This 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 33 
 
 wonderful frame so supple, so elastic, so strong, so 
 versatile, so capable, so perfectly adapted to care for 
 itself, with the responsibility of caring for all creation, 
 in the very nature of the case must have been created 
 for labor, yea, for wearing toil if necessary. There 
 has been something wrong in the training when one 
 has such an aversion to labor that it is considered 
 a disgrace to soil the hands with honest toil. There 
 is something wrong with both mind and body when 
 a spirit of irksomeness thus takes possession of a 
 human being and he lapses into lethargy and inertia. 
 \\ atch the healthy kids and lambkins, and kittens, 
 and pui~)pies, and the older animals too. They all have 
 their pla\' spells. They seem to love activity. Even 
 the swine has ])layful spells before a storm. 
 
 There can l)e no mistake in assuming that man- 
 kind was made for useful ])hysical activity; and the 
 sooner the youthful minds- are trained into this idea 
 the better for them and for the great world which 
 has a right to demand of every man that he do his 
 very best physically and mentally tn produce, and 
 leave l)ehin(l him a heritage that shall bring comfort 
 and lasting good to that world and race to which he 
 was indebted for all he had and was. 
 
 Rest. 
 
 Not only the night of sleep and the little stop- 
 jiing ])laces throughout the day of i>hysical weariness, 
 but rest of mind, soul and heait : that peaceful calm 
 that comes only to him who realizes his dejiendence 
 on his Creator for e\erything lie has; rest is all this 
 and more. To him only who grasps the great truth 
 that "In lliin we live and move and have « ur being" 
 
34 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 and that "witliout nie ye can do nothing," comes that 
 full rest of faith which is the true foundation of all 
 health and vital activity. Confidence is the mental 
 soil and peace the fruitage of rest. Where peace is 
 there will be prosperity. 
 
 That wear and tear of mind which produces sighs 
 and groans, destroys the appetite, suspends the func- 
 tions of the body, makes the head hot and feverish 
 and the feet cold, and sends the sufiferer to bed to 
 toss sleeplessly through the night, is no part of Chris- 
 tian experience, and is not in order for any sound- 
 minded sane person. It is this miserable worry that 
 sends men to the insane asylum and the suicide's 
 grave. Soul rest is the true normal condition, without 
 which there is no sound health. The anxiety, care^ 
 worry and fretting have no place in a sane mind. I 
 was once riding with a gentleman after two horses he 
 was driving. One was doing his work quietly, calmly 
 and coolly. The other was ])rancing and fretting and 
 foaming from head to foot. The driver remarked, 
 "That horse makes me tired. He acts all the time 
 just as if he was going to pin-feather but he never 
 does." So with thousands of people. They have a 
 terrible anxiety about something that never happens 
 and never can happen. If there was any fun or pleas- 
 ure or comfort or money in it, or any kind of profit 
 whatsoever it might be justifiable. I know of noth- 
 ing but common sense and the application of the grace 
 that is revealed in God's word that can really cure 
 this condition. "Rest in the Lord and wait patiently 
 for Him; trust also in Him and He shall bring it to 
 pass, and He shall bring forth thy righteousness as 
 the light and thy judgment as the noonday." "Fret 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 35 
 
 not thyself because of evil doers, neither he thou 
 envious against the workers of iniquity for they shall 
 soon be cut down as the grass and wither as the green 
 herb." "Fret not thyself in any wise, it tendeth only 
 to evil doing." (Am. Revision.) 
 
 To the Christian we may say there is no faith or 
 trust in worrying. To the non-christian there is no 
 common sense in it. And to all there is no righteous- 
 ness in it; "it tendeth only to evil doing." 
 
 At night God turns ofif the radiant activity of the 
 sun that man may be physically rebuilt. His volun- 
 tary powers cease their activities so that the involun- 
 tary nervous system can rid the body from the waste 
 of the previous day's toil, and replace this tissue with 
 new material wrought out of the pre\ious day's food 
 and sunlight and air. Physical rest is an absolute 
 necessity for existence, and mental rest must pave 
 the way for it or we soon reap a harvest of nervous 
 prostration or insanity, and other ills too nunuM-ous to 
 mention here. 
 
 Does anyone look upon these common things with 
 indifference, while his imagination wanders after medi- 
 cine or miracle or some Healing fad? Are these na- 
 tural things too simple? Does familiarity with them 
 breed contempt? Are they too tame? Then just let 
 him dismiss these common things for a time. Stop 
 eating for a week. Cease drinking for two or three 
 days, or try a c|uicker, more decisive test, just stop 
 breathing for a minute and a half, blither one of these 
 experiments will most likely restore respect for the 
 natural things unless the individual has lost his bal- 
 ance. 
 
 These seven essentials are the eternal verities, the 
 
36 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 evcrlastini^: foundations of all existence. They are -the 
 sources whence all life is drawn. There is nothing 
 more, outside of them, except creative power, that is 
 in any way necessary to life. But is not surgery 
 necessary? Surely. But when you set a bone you give 
 the part rest, and when you remove a tumor you take 
 away a burden and give the body rest. So the great 
 science of surgery comes under God's great Law of 
 Rest. Faradic, galvanic, and static electricity are all 
 forms of exercise to the tissue cells. Electric and other 
 lights come under sunlight, whence they were de- 
 rived. Under exercise would we classify massage and 
 osteopathy and artificial respiration. Germicides un- 
 der sunlight, the greatest of all germ destroyers, and 
 
 the producer of most harmless germicides. The great 
 Pestalozzian system of education now so well known 
 through the influence of the normal schools, justifies 
 the classification of all the lesser of any kind under 
 the greater whether there be a law of dependence or 
 not. .And parasite destro^^ers we would classify with 
 those things that give the body rest. Stimulants are 
 the cause of forced activity in the vital nervous sys- 
 tem. Cathartics give forced exercise to the alimentary 
 canal. The safe use of anesthetics and sedatives may 
 be classed under the La\y of Rest. The only excuse 
 for the use of these things is found in the old adage, 
 "Of two evils choose the least." ft is better to take 
 the risk of an anesthetic than to suffer for want of a 
 necessary surgical operation. In some cases, as the 
 passing of gall stones, it is wiser to relax the tissues 
 with sedatives and anesthetics than to suffer the pain. 
 What about the use of poison medicines in general? 
 The body wears out its vitality trying to get rid of 
 
THE SEVEN ESSENTIALS 37 
 
 them. Some men take strychnine for months in mi- 
 nute doses and live through it. But that does not 
 prove that they received any benefit from it. The 
 less poisons a physician dispenses the better his pa- 
 tients thrive. But there are non-poisonous remedies 
 of great value in the treatment of the sick. Germi- 
 cides furnish an example. 
 
CHAPTER III, 
 
 The Laws of Life. 
 
 We are now prepared to define the laws of life. 
 When you understand your relations to sunlight and 
 heat and other forms of sun energy and know how 
 to use them for your own, and the physical good of 
 others, then you understand the law of health with 
 regard to sunlight. Whether written or unwritten 
 it matters not. So with regard to ever}- one of these 
 essentials; sunlight, air, water, food, clothing, exer- 
 cise and rest. \\'hen one knows how to use each of 
 these things as they ought to be used to sustain life, 
 then he knows the laws of life and health. Hence 
 we may define : The Laws of Life are those principles 
 which show^ our right relations to these Seven Es- 
 sentials on which life depends. This definition may be 
 amplified somewhat. The Laws of Life are those 
 principles whether written in the Word of (lod or 
 learned by human experience which show our right 
 relations to the things in Nature on which life de- 
 ])ends. 
 
 Most, if not all these laws are found, at least in 
 principle, in the T.ible. lUit many of the particulars 
 have l)een learned through human experience. 
 
 The Laws of Sunlight and Clothing. 
 
 "(jod said. Let light be, and light was." This was the 
 beo'inniu"' of life to a chaotic world. As we have seen 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 39 
 
 in the former chapter, ^the sun is the source of radiant 
 energy to this world. Now to q^et into and keep in 
 right relations to this energy is the first problem of 
 life. 
 
 We shall have to deal with the laws of sunlight and 
 clothing in a great measure together, because both are 
 questions of warmth and comfort, and the two are so 
 intimately associated that it is difficult to separate 
 them. The body itself is fully prepared to generate 
 heat enough for comfort for moderate climates, and in 
 cool weather exercise helps out amazingly in increas- 
 ing heat production. And if it is too warm, then the 
 body has power to cool itself by pouring out moisture 
 on the surface, and this evaporation lowers the tem- 
 perature. So for moderately comforttble climates 
 there is little necessity for heat production, or for 
 protection from heat. The shade of park and forest is 
 also a great protection. It is indeed wonderful how 
 a healthy body can adapt itself even to extremes of 
 temperature. 
 
 Witness the domestic animals. We have to pro- 
 vide them shelter from the cold when they are not exer- 
 cising, but what extremes of temperature they do 
 endure plodding for the whole day through snow and 
 ice in an atmosphere far below zero. The wild ani- 
 mals of our zone change their coats for comfort to 
 meet the changing seasons. Some of tlic highest 
 degrees of civilization have been reached and the 
 greatest health and longevity attained where the range 
 of temperature is between 30 and 100 degrees F. Some 
 of the hardiest and most active nations of earth have 
 existed where the temperature frequently goes below 
 zero, and fioni that up to 100 degrees, ."-^onie nations 
 
40 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 today are holding vig-orous sway where the cold for 
 five or six months of the year is intense. These have 
 learned to build their houses for protection more than 
 for beauty. The body must have protection and the 
 house must be so built that the coal and wood and oil, 
 the previously prepared products of sun energy, may 
 be utilized to the best advantage for warmth. 
 
 It is absolutely necessary for the highest develop- 
 ment to have changes of temperature. Continuous 
 extremes of cold or heat become depressing. They 
 are very trying to the human constitution. So man 
 must clothe himself and build his house with a view 
 to keeping his surroundings at a reasonably even tem- 
 perature. While it is true that low temperatures do 
 compel activity, and that some cases do need the 
 stimulating effects of a cool climate for a while, we 
 should not conclude that a house temperature of 65 
 to 70 degrees F. is enervating. When the outside 
 temperature is about zero, or lower, we can keep 
 fairly comfortable with clothing and exercise, but 
 when we enter the house and the wraps are laid aside 
 and the vigorous exercise ceases, we then need the 
 even, steady temperature that is most conducive to 
 comfort. And those who are confined to the house 
 in cold weather can dress themselves for the even 
 summer temperature of the home and when they go 
 out make additions to meet the outside necessities—- 
 the heavy overcoat, overshoes, ear mufflers, mittens 
 or gloves, and equestrian tights. The even balance of 
 the blood circulation must be maintained or sickness 
 follows. There is no virtue in braving the cold with- 
 out the overcoat and the tights. It may be heroic, 
 but it is foolhardy, if not forced by necessity. 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 41 
 
 For every climate the house should be built to pre- 
 serve an even temperature. Especially should atten- 
 tion be paid to having the floor tight and warm, so that 
 the feet and limbs may be kept as warm as the body. 
 A double floor with good building paper between 
 should be regarded as a necessity. The double walls 
 of the sides should be interlined with the same. This 
 does much to shut out cold and dampness. It is our 
 impression that if the heat were applied to the floor 
 of the house, and the floor were kept warm, a much 
 lower temperature of room would be tolerated. We 
 are told that this is the method used in Korea in the 
 best buildings. 
 
 Install electric fans and use cork hats for the tropics 
 and heated seasons of the temperate zone. These are 
 not luxuries. Thev become a necessitv. Light and 
 warmth are necessary. Rut the direct rays of the 
 sun must be avoided in the tropics and during heated 
 terms everywhere. The sun-umbrella may save a 
 sun-stroke. Again there are seasons and times when 
 we should bask in the full direct rays of the sun. There 
 are those who live too much in the shadows. They 
 should "Come out in the sunshine and let their souls 
 (and bodie.s) bloom." 
 
 In hot countries, houses should be built especially 
 for the circulation of air. and should be properly 
 screened with tine woven wire screens to keep out 
 noxious insects and admit free circulation of air. It 
 is worth all it costs to be cool and have the comfort 
 and safety of being free from insect pests. The floors 
 should be made of water lime or Portland cement and 
 sand, or tiles, so they can be sprinkled and kept cool 
 and clean : the roof should be as thick as necessary to 
 
42 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 keep out the direct heat of the sun. A double roof 
 is a g^reat help and hollow cement blocks for the sides. 
 Such a floor as above mentioned should be sprinkled 
 so as to keep the house cool by evaporation. If some 
 distasteful antiseptic, like carbolic acid well diluted, is 
 used, this will clear out all insects. Disease germs 
 have less chance in a house thus built and kept. 
 
 The personal clothing should all be suspended from 
 the shoulders leaving the waist-line perfectly free, so 
 as in no way to interfere with the breathing or ether 
 internal functions of the body. Comfort and freedom 
 are the first principles of dress. This is also necessary 
 to spiritual comfort and freedom. In all high tem- 
 peratures perhaps the best clothing is linen, because 
 it absorbs the moisture quickly and gives it oft readily. 
 Cotton is a good material for most moderate climates. 
 Silk is always good for those who are able to have it. 
 For cooler climes, cotton, silk or linen or even wool 
 underwear with good heavy woolen or fur over-gar- 
 ments are a stern necessity. In changeable seasons 
 the garments sliould be changed as often as the wea- 
 ther changes if only an outer garment is donned and 
 doITed to meet the circumstances. 
 
 The protection for the night is the bedding. Beds 
 should be elastic so as to shape to the body. There 
 is neither moral nor physical virtue in sleeping on a 
 plank or a cluster of hummocks. During the damp 
 seasons beds away from the fire should be dried out 
 two or three times a week. Damp beds exhaust vi- 
 tality unnecessarily. When one experiences chilly sen- 
 sations for some time after retiring, better dry out the 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 43 
 
 bedding" by the fire. This may save a case of pneu- 
 monia. Tt will save a lot of wretchedness, at least. 
 
 Make the bod}' comfortable and physically haj)i)y 
 in its relation to lii;ht and warmth, and do not snp- 
 pose for, a moment that there is any virtue in shiver- 
 in_c:, or going w ith cold feet, or keeping the house cool 
 so as to toughen the famil}' to the weather. Keep the 
 winter temperature of the house at 65 or 70 degrees 
 one yard from the floor. If the floor is warm you 
 will all be happy. If the floor cannot be kept warm 
 you had better get some felt slippers. Keep the feet 
 and limbs warm and the head cool. The feebler ones 
 of the family should be looked after and supplied with 
 extra clothing. Make a wall crib for the baby so as to 
 keep him off the floor, which is usually from 10 to 
 20 degrees colder than two yards above it. Physical 
 comfort is the end to be gained. Without it what is 
 the use of murdering along and eking out a miser- 
 able existence? 
 
 Christmas and other presents better be useful com- 
 fortable articles of clothing, than the gew-gaws and 
 gim-cracks commonly used for this purpose. 
 
 For ^'entilating purposes, full provision should be 
 made for warming the air in winter as it comes into 
 the house. It may be admitted into a jacket about the 
 heater before entering the living rooms. This is a 
 simple and inexpensive way. The plati shoidd be laid 
 S(» that the \entilation may be under control when it 
 is extra cold and when the wind is high. People in 
 temperate climates should not forget the window 
 screens in warm weather. There must be free circula- 
 tion of air in the house, or hnig and throat difficulties 
 will become romnion in the familw W'inrlow vcntila- 
 
44 ESSENTIALvS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 tioii is good if well managed. The air must be kept 
 renewed, so thai one coming in from the outside will 
 not notice any material difference except warmth. 
 Flies must be kept out to prevent typhoid and other 
 infection in the food, and mosquitoes to prevent ma- 
 laria and yellow fever. 
 
 Man cannot always live in the open sunlight. But 
 those whose emj)loyment keeps them from its direct 
 rays will suffer serious loss unless some portion of 
 each day is spent under the direct beams of the sun. 
 The body needs its chemical action in every depart- 
 ment. One of "the great benefits is the aid it renders 
 to the skin in throwing ofif impurities. There is little 
 doubt but that it works all through the bodv as a 
 germ destroyer, for the entire interior of the body is 
 illuminated when exposed to the sunlight. To take 
 in the sun energy by day and conserve it by night 
 so that the whole being is kept comfortable all the 
 time, is a most important advance step in the way 
 to Life and Health. There are climates and seasons 
 where the direct rays are too strong for the body. 
 The al)ove ad\-ice needs modifying for these times and 
 places. 
 
 Last, but not least, avoid too much clothing. By 
 neglecting the cool bath one may feel the sense of 
 chilliness in the skin and be led to ])ut on nuich more 
 clothing than is really necessary or good for the Ix dy. 
 Better to use the dry hand rub or mitten friction and 
 a little oil, thus waking nji the circulation in the skin, 
 than to weigh down the body unnecessarily. Much 
 less clothing is required if the skin is kept active. 
 
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 The Law of Breathing. 
 
 All hreathing should he done through the nostrils. 
 If the nasal passages are closed up, have the obstruc- 
 tion removed. The moist nasal passages take out the 
 dust and germs; and the air is warmed and moistened 
 before it reaches the vocal cords and the lungs. 
 
 A full use of the lung capacity is seldom attained, 
 and but very few medical men have yet fully realized 
 the relations between the use of the diaphragm on one 
 hand and heart action and the peristalsis of the stom- 
 ach and bowels on the other hand, not to mention the 
 effect of full breathing on the liver and spleen. 
 
 The diaphragm, which is the floor of the chest cav- 
 ity is the leading muscle of the human bod3\ It is 
 the organ of breathing. As air is the most imme- 
 diatelv important essential, so dia])hragm action is 
 ilic most important muscular action in the body. The 
 diaphragm crowns tip in the center something like 
 an ojien umbrella when the breath is out, and when 
 the breath is drawn in it drops down in the center 
 and expands its border at the waist line. So that with 
 every full natural breath the waist line enlarges from 
 one to thre'e inches. The lungs simply receive and 
 hold the air. This diaphragm action also accom- 
 ])lishes wonderful things for the work of digestion 
 The stomach lies up under the left ribs extendins^ 
 across just beyotid what we call the pit of the stomach. 
 The liver is up under tlie right ribs close to the dia- 
 ])hragm. So everv downward moxement of the 
 diaphragm gives the st<^mach and liver a gentle 
 squeeze; and this motion reaches every organ m the 
 abdomen. Thus a constant gentle up and (h \vn move- 
 ment is imparted to all the internal organs of the 
 
46 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 body; keeping all the involuntary muscles that hold 
 the vital organs in place in a lively, healthy condition. 
 If the breathing act were not hampered by worry, nor 
 restricted by waist bands there would be no weak, 
 flabby organs inside the body. Even the muscles that 
 sustain the uterus would be kept healthy and strong, 
 and there would not be that long list of female weak- 
 nesses we hear so much about, and at least three- 
 tourths of the physicians in the United States of Amer- 
 ica would have to seek employment in other lines. If 
 Christians would only rise above the influence of the 
 illustrated literature with which an enemy has flooded 
 the world, and which is designed by that enemy to 
 teach mothers how to shape the supple, plastic waists 
 of their daughters and arrest their development, so 
 that death and sufl:'ering and misery may reign over 
 the more finely organized half of the race ; then would 
 a reform begin which would put i-n the shade all other 
 reforms that have ever come to civilization. Those 
 that care to live and be an honor to existence will 
 struggle for emancipation from every fashion that in 
 any way hampers or restricts the human body. This 
 custom of restricting the waist line, furnishes fully 
 three fourths of all the patients in our sanitariums 
 and hospitals, sim|)ly because bands at the waist line 
 interfere directly' and seriously with the functions 
 of every vital organ in the body. For this cause 
 nearly all serious diseases originate in these organs. 
 The remedy is U> reform the clothing by suspending 
 it from the shoulders, leaving the waist absolutely 
 free. Then begin to use the diaphragm so that the 
 digestion and depuration may be carried on without 
 interference. As long as breathing is done by the 
 
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 upper chest muscles there will be no natural aid 
 given to the work of digestion. It will lake time to 
 reform the breathing in some cases, but it will pay 
 big returns. A course of sanitarium physical training 
 may be necessary. Those who really love life will 
 feel the importance of heeding this law. Some, we 
 are sorry to say are so miserable just on account of 
 neglect on this point, that life to them is not worth 
 living. And it would be hard to rouse some of these 
 to any real earnest action in their own behalf. 
 
 Perhaps the reader would like to have the state- 
 ment demonstrated that the diaphragm and muscles 
 of breathing are one count ahead of the heart. We 
 just take a patient that is dead from chloroform or 
 ether or from drowning. His heart, of course, has 
 stopped beating, or he would not be dead. Now let 
 the skilled manipulator practice artificial respiration — 
 that is, set in motion the diaphragm and other breath- 
 ing muscles. There is a chance that in due time the 
 heart will begin to beat again and the patient live. 
 Scores have been thus resuscitated. What is it that 
 started the- heart to action? The act of breathing 
 caused by using diaphragm and chest muscles pass- 
 ively. Wliich muscles, then, lead the way? None can 
 fail to see that it is the diaphragm. If the heart re- 
 sponds to its action, then must the diaphragm be the 
 leading muscle. Though this is true, it is not best to 
 advance this muscle very far ahead of the heart, for 
 both work together. However, the diaphragm has the 
 advantage of being both voluntary and involuntary, 
 while the heart is only an involuntary muscle. More 
 is said on this point under Breathing as a Remedy 
 for Disease. 
 
48 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 The Law of Water Drinking. 
 
 Enough good pure water should be drank daily to 
 keep the blood and lymphatic circulation at a maxi- 
 mum state of fluidity. This will make it possible for 
 the depurating organs ; skin, liver, lungs, bowels, and 
 kidneys to throw out the wornout waste from the 
 ijody. With the circulation in this condition there 
 can be little or no crystallization of uric acid and no 
 chance for the fluids to thicken and stagnate in the 
 finer vessels about the joints and cartilages and in 
 the nerves and skin of the bones where many of the 
 \eins and arteries and lymph vessels are not as large 
 as hairs. This will take an immense burden of labor 
 ofif the heart and save an incalculable amount of heart 
 energy. 
 
 In a case of \ cry weak heart when all the func- 
 tions of the body are slowed u)) and less food is being 
 taken and less water needed to keeji the blood at a 
 ])ro])er consistencw the term "inaxinunn fluidity" 
 would not call for so great a (|uanfity of water as in 
 a state of average health. Van Noorden, one of the 
 best physicians in Europe, where people use more 
 soujis than in America, restricts his patients who have 
 heart disease to from two to three pints of fluid daily. 
 This is about one-half what the average person can 
 take with ad\antage. It is the opinion of the writer 
 that the heart often fails and becomes weak because 
 of the extra work in handling a thickened blood sup- 
 ])lv. Thinls- of the difference to the heart between 
 l)uiiii)ing thick. hea\y. almost mud(l\- blood through 
 the capillaries; and circulating the same blood when 
 tliimu'd t- its natural fluidity. 
 
 If \ on are comi)elled to drink water of doubtful 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 49 
 
 purity, l:)oil tor ten minutes, then settle and cool. This 
 will also take much of the linie out of hard water. 
 
 Rain-water may be filtered through charcoal and 
 made exceedino^ly good. To make a filter get a 
 whiskey barrel, or one of that kind ; put a false bottom 
 in it about six inches above the other, perforated full 
 of holes. This makes a reservoir to hold the filtered 
 water. Put in a faucet to draw ofif the water. Xow 
 fill tine barrel two-thirds full of pulverized charcoal 
 about the size of beans and peas, and some of it 
 smaller. Co\er the charcoal with six inches of gravel. 
 Put a dish-pan in the top of the barrel from the center 
 of which a hole two or three inches in diameter has 
 been cut. Stuff a good sized sponge into this hole and 
 your filter is all ready. Pour the cistern water into 
 the pan. It will ooze through the sponge which takes 
 out the coarse impurities and the charcoal will thor- 
 oughly cleanse and sweeten it. Wash the sponge twice 
 a week, and renew the charcoal once in four or six 
 weeks. This will not destroy germs nor remove the 
 lime from .hard water. I'oiling kills germs, ordinary 
 freezing does not kill them, it only stops their growth 
 for the time. .Some recent experiments indicate that 
 long continued freezing for several months will de- 
 stroy them. This method will secure a very whole- 
 some supply of water. 
 
 To ])urify hard water a still will l)e necessary. One 
 is \erv easily made using an iron kettle for a base; 
 oil this set a copper pail ah<nit twenty inches high 
 with a cone shaped co\er and instead of a bottom a 
 trough running all a1>out the inside. The pail should 
 be made to tit the k(.-ttle like a steamer. Keep this 
 still oil oiu' of the middle > <r back holes oi the st(n-e 
 
50 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 where it will siinnier all the time and boil part of the 
 time. The steam will rise into the still where it will 
 condense against the sides and run down into the 
 trough or reservoir whence it is drawn by the faucet. 
 Such a still as this kept in use constantly will distil 
 at least from one to two gallons of water a day, and 
 this water will be practically pure. 
 
 A parting word. School yourself to drink little at 
 your meals. A glass of water on rising; a half a cup 
 of hot water at breakfast; two glasses within two 
 hours of the next meal; half a glass at the noon meal, 
 then the same before and at the evening meal, and two 
 within an hour of retiring. This makes eight and one- 
 half glasses ; a little over two quarts. Just about 
 enough for a person weighing 130 pounds. Is that 
 much of a task? Take it part hot and part cold, as 
 you like it, not more than one glass at a time. All 
 hot weakens the stomach. This will work wonders 
 for lots of people if they do nothing more. In hot 
 weather more will be required, as nuich is used up in 
 evaporation to keep the body cool. 
 
 The Law of Eating. 
 
 "Blessed art thou O land, when thy princes eat in 
 due season for strength and not for drunkenness." We 
 should eat to live and not live to eat. And yet we 
 ought to enjoy our food. Human appetite is more or 
 less perverted and the majority of men crave foods 
 just through hal)it, which do not prove either by 
 the divine ordinance or by sane experience to be the 
 best. "And God said, behold I have given you every 
 herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the 
 earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 51 
 
 yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat." Gen. 1 :29. 
 This was the primary law concerning man's food. 
 There is little doubt among the advanced hygienists 
 that foods taken first hand from nature's laboratory, 
 grains, fruits, and vegetables, are purer, better, more 
 nourishing, and more economical than flesh foods, 
 There is less danger of disease in the first hand prod- 
 ucts. There is more variety and satisfaction once the 
 appetite is trained. The vegetarian has less hunger 
 and cravings than the flesh eater. He has more mental 
 clearness and quietness, more peace and less worry 
 and anxiety. The blood is purer with less disease 
 germs lurking among the organs of the body. Those 
 who live on flesh add to their own waste poisons the 
 waste poisons of the animal body. These toxic ele- 
 ments act as irritants and unduly stimulate the animal 
 passions, beside overworking the depurating organs 
 and laying the foundation for serious diseases in the 
 body. It is asserted on liigh authority that every 
 pound of beefsteak contains from twelve to sixteen 
 grains of uric acid which is the great cause of neural- 
 gia, rheumatism, eczema and asthma. There is a re- 
 lationship existing between diseased flesh of animals 
 and the diseases among men. Tuberculosis in milch 
 cows may be conveyed to weak human beings in the 
 use of the milk and appear as tuberculosis of the 
 bowels or glands. The flesh of tuberculosis cattle will 
 also convey the disease. The writer has abstained 
 Totally from eating swine's flesh and all products from 
 it for forty-five years and has in his own experience 
 fully proved the wisdom of the word of God which 
 forbids the use of this class of food, (Lev. 11 :7, 8.) and 
 he is acquainted with thousands of others who have 
 
52 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 had a similar experience. And dnrinj^ all these years 
 there has been a gradual lessening of the use of all 
 forms of flesh foods, till they have ceased to be a 
 necessity. The appetite for - flesh perishes once the 
 mind is convinced and the body is sup])lied with those 
 things like whnle grains and peas and beans and nuts 
 which contain the food elements needed to make mus- 
 cle. ncr\e and brain. When the appetite clamors for 
 flesh eat freely those things which supply the bodily 
 wants and you soon fori^et the flesh. Starches, sugar, 
 fruits and vegetables will not furnish muscle, nerve, 
 brain and bone-making materials, but the g^rains and 
 legumes will, and then the craving for the old food 
 ceases, especially if the judgment is already convinced. 
 Rice, wheat, barley, oats, rye. corn and various grains 
 with ])eas, beans, and lentils are sufficient to meet the 
 wants that have heretofore been supplied with flesh 
 and are far superior in every way. 
 
 Anc^ther important point is this: flesh-eating" pro- 
 duces a craving for strong drink. 'Jliis has been proved 
 over and over again. The one sure way to overcome 
 the ajipetite for strong" drink is to adopt an almost 
 exclusive grain, fruit and vegetal)le diet. The whole 
 wdieat ground or crushed is one of the most complete 
 foods when made uf) into dil^'erent forms. Milk is a 
 good diet for some and a moderate use of eggs is 
 not \'et to be condemned in most cases. There is 
 nK)re liabilit}- to disease in milk than in grain foods. 
 l\^ overcome this liability milk, before using, ought 
 to l)e kcjit at a temi)erature a little below the boiling 
 ])()int for half an hour soon after it is milked. This 
 is so-called Pasteurization. (From the name Pasteur, 
 the first scientist to propose and demonstrate this way 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 53 
 
 of treating milk.) Sterilization is accomplished by 
 boiling for some time. We are assured by high au- 
 thority that milk boiled for 20 minutes each day for 
 three days in succession will keep indefinitely if sealed. 
 
 A certain amount of cream, butter, or clive or some 
 other pure vegetable oil should be used daily. The 
 most objectionable is butter which is really unfit to 
 use unless made from sterilized cream or milk. This 
 is written in view of existing conditions in general. 
 There is no safety between the diseased cows and the 
 filthy milking and handling of the milk only in steril- 
 ization. For the milk of one diseased cow or one 
 dirty milker or a filthy milk can will contaminate the 
 milk of a whole dairy. Milk i)asteurization and steril- 
 ization has in the last few years lessened the infant 
 mortality fifty per cent in some of cur eastern cities. 
 This has been true of the city of Rochester, X. Y., for 
 the last thirteen years. Each year of this time the 
 infant mortality- has been only one-half as great as 
 during the i)receding years when no precautions were 
 used. 
 
 Hut the fact still remains haxing been demonstra- 
 ted at the I'niversity of Michigan, that a perfectly 
 healthy cow fed on pure food and given pure water 
 to drink gives pure milk. The experiment was tried 
 of milking such a cow in a clean i)lace into sterilized 
 glass tubes. These were stoppered with pledgets of 
 sterilized cotton and taken to the laboratory where 
 they were hermetically sealed by melting the tops to- 
 gether with a blowpipe. This milk ]>ut up in this 
 manner without heating has been kcj)! for years in an 
 ordinary cool place and was still, at last accounts, in 
 perfect condition. Those dairy men who i)roduce purr 
 
54 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 milk from healthy cows will have command of the 
 situation from this time on. There is a murmuring 
 against cooking the milk on the part of some strong 
 men in the medicial profession and there is probably 
 some ground for it, for there can be no doubt that 
 pure unheated milk is more in harmmiy with nature 
 than the cooked product. 
 
 Every one must choose on principle for himself 
 what particular food is best for him. We shall say 
 more fully what to choose in some cases of disease in 
 a later chapter. 
 
 As to the quantity of food, this varies with the tem- 
 perature and with the business one is engaged in, and 
 Vv^ith temperament and constitution of the person. It 
 is always safe to be moderate in the manner of eating, 
 chewing faithfully all food before it is swallowed, and 
 never should anyone eat when under great excitement, 
 or when fretted and worried. Jo}^ and gladness should 
 be the accompaniment of every meal. Cheerful so- 
 ciety at the table makes plain food acceptable to the 
 body. Thanksgiving to God, the provider of all gifts, 
 coming from a full heart is a splendid prc|)aration for 
 the work of digestion. 
 
 The variety and frequency of meals is a matter of 
 great importance. Three or four kinds at most is all 
 that should be taken at once. Care should be taken 
 not to mix fruits and vegetables or fruits and meats, 
 at the same meal. Also large quantities of milk and 
 sugar or milk and meats. Mixtures lead to surfeiting, 
 and mental stupor follows. Three meals a day is 
 enough for anyone in any circumstances of life, except 
 yoimg children, and most occupations would flourish 
 as well en two. The time of meals is a matter of habit 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 55 
 
 and convenience. They ought always to be five or six 
 hours apart, and the last one not less than four hours 
 before retirin.s^. In some diseased conditions it often 
 happens that just a few mouthfuls of simple food at 
 retiring seems to induce sleep, Init this is not likely 
 to be best if the re.g'ular evening- meal has been taken. 
 
 The Law of Exercise. 
 
 There is no better exercise for mankind, generally 
 speaking, than that which is required for producing 
 the necessities of life. Agriculture presents great op- 
 portunities for ]:)hysical development and excellent 
 chances for mental training. The mechanism of the 
 body demands motion. Exercise aids the circulation 
 of the blood, increases breathing, sets the digestive 
 organis into operation, clears out the tissue impurities, 
 aids in buiUling up all the organs and helps in clearing 
 the mind for action. Mental activity is just as essen- 
 tial t<i health as' physical activity. All work and mere 
 commonplace thinking unbalances the man, leaving 
 him like the beast of burden ; and all thinking and lit- 
 tle or no physical employment leads to early decay and 
 dissolution, and sometimes insanity. 
 
 Enough exercise should be taken daily to produce 
 at least copious perspiration in moderate weather and a 
 relative amount for varying temperatures. Exercise 
 raises the temperature of the body. Perspiration car- 
 ries ofif the surplus heat, and at the same time gets 
 rid of a large amount of waste material. l*!xercisc 
 makes the blood flow, taking away worn out material, 
 and bringing into the nniscles new building material. 
 
 Exercise that has an object to accomplish is worth 
 twice as much as mere physical movements. Moderate 
 
56 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 exercise is conducive to sleep. Jn sickness or invalid- 
 ism, massage, a passive form of exercise is of great 
 value. It is safe to say that life depends on it in some 
 cases. Artificial respiration, which is massage to the 
 diaphragm and chest walls, has saved inany a life even 
 after the heart had ceased to beat. l)y starting the 
 lungs and heart again into action. In sprains and 
 bruises massage wisely applied at once may save 
 months of suffering, by promptly restoring the circu- 
 lation in the injured parts. Brain workers will avoid 
 many of their grey hairs and much of their premature 
 decay by a little timely exercise each day. There is 
 an increase of moral power in overcoming the tendency 
 to inertia. The real love of physical labor is no mean 
 virtue. 
 
 The Law of Rest. 
 
 Nearly all i)eople need to be cautioned about worry- 
 ing. Nine-tenths of all human ailments are due di- 
 rectly or indirectly to this and other mental causes. 
 Who is not conscious of having lost his appetite and 
 power to digest, or of having forgotten to breathe and 
 found himself indulging in long-drawn sighs, just be- 
 cause he had something on his mind which was caus- 
 ing undue pressure or anxiety. And who has net spent 
 sleepless nights with his own troubled mind and in the 
 morning found himself no nearer the solution of his 
 troubles than the night before? And this failure to 
 breathe and to digest, and sleep, is enough to pave the 
 way for all ills. Just keep this worry going year after 
 year and chronic congestions will form in the brain 
 and body and certain nerves and muscles may be kept 
 on a strain until tumors result. Some capable physi- 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 57 
 
 cians assert that this is so. The mill that grinds (uit 
 nothing' soon wears itself out. Just think of the 
 amount of brain wear all for nothing. If the trouble 
 can be helped help it and quit. If it can't be helped 
 then what is the sense in grinding; drop it and do 
 something else. The writer was born of an invalid 
 mother and was as prone to worry as water is to run 
 down hill. At the age of forty-one he found himself 
 struggling against great odds in the financial and so- 
 cial world and he freely confesses to having carried 
 fretting to a wicked extreme. One night about two 
 in the morning he felt a sense of a hand being laid on 
 his shoulder and seemed to receive a shake sufficient 
 to thoroughly arouse him. He unconsciously assumed 
 a listening attitude, with the head raised in part from 
 the pillow. Then these words came to his ears in 
 clean cut tones, "What is worrying anyway?" The 
 mental effort to frame an answer was most intense 
 but no answer would formulate. After a moment the 
 tension relaxed and he said mentally, "I give it up, 
 I cannot tell," instantly in the same clear tones came 
 the repl}-, "Simply feeling bad because you cannot 
 have your own way." Reflection caused him to con- 
 fess that this was really true; that he had laid plans 
 and they miscarried, and then he sat down and wor- 
 ried over his t)wn failures. It was a lasting lesson 
 and has changed his whole life. 
 
 Resting does not mean idleness alone. It means 
 peace and inward quietness in performing the neces- 
 sary duties of life. He who would be well should 
 save the useless brain and nerve wear and let his 
 strength go toward performing the useful things of 
 life. 
 
58 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Eight hours horizontal repose in rest or sleep is a 
 prime necessity. Insanity is in many cases a result 
 of worry and mental perturbation and want of sleep. 
 The fluid circulation of the bod}- grows thick and the 
 nerves and brain become irritable and life is wretched- 
 ness both for the individual and his associates. This 
 failure to rest is a symptom of mental disease which 
 nothing but faith, hope and trust can cure. It is along 
 this line that so-called divine healers are scoring their 
 successes. 
 
 God has made it a law of nature that mental rest 
 and hopefulness and courage will cure the maladies 
 that are caused by mental disturbances. The patient 
 does not necessarily have to be told to exercise faith 
 or have confidence. You need not tell him you are 
 trying to change his mental moods and divert his at- 
 tention. You had better keep still about your plans 
 in his case and just get his mind on something else 
 beside his old troubles. Being a law of nature it does 
 not matter who invokes it, whether the mind centers 
 its hope and rest on God the Creator, or on a heathen 
 joss, or on the assurances of the family physician, or 
 the "absurd formulas of a professedly divine healer; 
 the temporary physical results will be the same no 
 matter who gets the credit. The occult mysterious 
 utterances of Christian Science denying the existence 
 of sin and the judgment, removes from the mind all 
 sense of moral responsibility if accepted, thus giving 
 peace within ; the promises of perfect cure beget hope 
 and trust ; the mysterious explanations arouse the love 
 of the marvelous and the fervent disciple soon forgets 
 her disappointments and troubles and sorrows of a 
 few months before ; the physical powers rally and 
 
THE LAWS OF LIFE 59 
 
 health returns. In sonic cases orj^anic diseases which 
 have come as a result of anxious care and other mental 
 conditions have been cured by this system of mental 
 denial and preoccupation. It is a fact well known to 
 almost everybody that the little external tumors we 
 call warts sometimes disappear almost mysteriously 
 without anything^ whatever being done. They were 
 there one day and a few days after they are gone. 
 Sometimes some neighborhood conjurer "wdiispers" 
 to the warts and sometimes they go and sometimes 
 they don't. Physicians are fully aware of the fact 
 that some internal tumors have disappeared when no 
 means were used to remove them. Perhaps the patient 
 took a little more time to rest or might have relaxed 
 the tension of care a little or drank a little more water. 
 The human body has in it wonderful recuperative 
 powers when freed from some of its burdens. 
 
 The secret of all mental cures is diversion of the 
 mind. This may be accomplished through a restora- 
 tion of confidence, or drawing out the sympathies after 
 some case of suffering, or by appeal to mysticism 
 through love i t the marvelous in some cases, or by 
 rousing the curiosity, or stimulating one to mirthful- 
 ness through an appeal to the ludicrous. An ocean voy- 
 age, or a trip through a pleasant part of the country, 
 all these things sometimes must be used. 
 
 TTypnotism also presents a false application of this 
 law of rest. It requires the patient to surrender his 
 will, his self-control, and his responsibility to the 
 hypnotist. This is more than the (lod of heaven ever 
 asked. TTc asks man to yield liis will to Ilim and 
 retain his self-control and his responsibility, having 
 the one stremithened an<l the other increased. 
 
6() ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 But the element of Spiritual Rest, that is, resting in 
 the Creator of the universe — is the sure and true foun- 
 dation both of this life and of the life to conic. 
 
 There is a vast difference between resting in God 
 and waiting patiently for Him, and trusting in Him to 
 bring all things to pass, and that He will "luring forth 
 our righteousness as the light and our judgment as the 
 noonday, there is vast difference between this resting 
 on creative power, and resting in the assurances of 
 these modern substitutes. There is the difference be- 
 tween light and darkness, between satisfaction and dis- 
 appointment, between life and death. When this rest 
 enters the heart the way is opened for the mighty 
 workings of God's power, both naturally and spirit- 
 ually.. But this power will come only upon those who 
 are willing to deny self and forsake their own ways. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Drugs, Stimulants, Narcotics and Patent 
 
 Medicines. 
 
 Having said this much concerning those principles 
 which show how we ought to use the essentials of life, 
 in our attempts to preserve and restore health, we are 
 prepared to go forward and consider something with 
 reference to the use of a class of remedies that have 
 for ages been quite popular among different nations. 
 We have heard much talk of the action of medicines 
 and the curative power of drugs. We will consider 
 how the body acts towards the medicines and stimu- 
 lants, and not how the medicines act toward the body. 
 
 Stimulation is an increased action of the organs of 
 the body. We wish to speak first of harmful stimula- 
 tion and its opposite, depression, not wishing to take 
 the space here to consider natural stimulation. A 
 harmful stimulant is any substance the presence of 
 which the vital organs resent and engage their energies 
 in an extra effort to get it out of the system without 
 the stimulant in return furnishing any energy to supply 
 the waste sustained. A depressant is any substance 
 the i)rescnce of which in the body causes so great an 
 eff()rt on the part of the nervous system in its effort 
 to protect the vital forces of the body from injury that 
 the vitality is lowered and the brain and ncrvotis action 
 is hindered and a degree of stupor prtiduccd. Tlu- ai- 
 
62 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 tion of the man which leads to indulgence in those 
 things which unnaturally depress or stimulate is called 
 intemperance. We may be permitted, for the sake of 
 enlarging the field of thought, to define intemperance 
 from another point of view. The use of any article 
 which will create an api)etite for itself is an act of 
 intemperance. We speak of these things here because 
 it is chiefly these classes of drugs that have been used 
 as medicines and it is due almost entirely to their medi- 
 cinal use that they have gotten their hold on the race. 
 There may be such a case, but the writer never knew 
 a morphine or cocaine fiend that did not commence the 
 use of the drug medicinally. The same is true of many 
 a drunkard ; it was the medicinal "bitters" that roused 
 the appetite for strong drink. It is the false notion con- 
 cerning the use of these drugs as medicines that has 
 fixed the curse of liquor and opium upon civilization. 
 The drug effect of tobacco is responsible for a multi- 
 tude of the modern cases of intemperance. The de- 
 pressing effect of tobacco calls for a corresponding- 
 stimulant to reverse the action of the nervous system. 
 It was Sir Walter Raleigh who recommended the use 
 of tobacco to his English fellow citizens as a cure for 
 a certain "vile disease." Perhaps the physicians of his 
 time were more to blame for this than he. It is still 
 recommended by some doctors for various diseases. 
 
 When alcoholic beverages are taken it is but a short 
 time before the lungs and kidneys begin to pour it out, 
 and a strong odor of alcohol appears in the breath and 
 urine. The nervous system sends word all around that 
 an extra supply of fluid is needed to dilute this alcoholic 
 enemy so that he can be driven out as quickly as possi- 
 ble. So the washing out begins. Generally during this 
 
STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES 63 
 
 process a feeling of exhilaration pervades the entire 
 body, unless so large a quantity is taken as to exhaust 
 the vital energies quickly, then depression follows. This 
 feeling of exhilaration is not strength derived from 
 the stimulant, but an extra manifestation of energy 
 to get rid of the drug. This false notion about the action 
 of stimulants on the body is entirely a mistake. It is 
 the action of the body towards the drugs of whatever 
 nature that produces the symptoms we see. This is 
 true of everything but the chemical action of certain 
 acids and alkalies that will destroy either living or dead 
 tissue or metallic substances. These are seldom used 
 internally. Barring this chemical action, all other 
 symptoms in the body following the use of drugs are 
 due to the living vital activity of the body. This ex- 
 plains fully why we see such varying results when 
 different people take the same drugs or stimulants. 
 Vital resistance varies; some can endure more than 
 others. The same body will 1)ecome tolerant, even of 
 poisons, by their constant use. For this reason drugs 
 and medicines are said to lose their effects. The body 
 ceases to put up a fight against them ; then a greater 
 dose is required before the energies of the body will 
 take notice of the enemy. * 
 
 False Education. The people generally have been 
 educated, through the profession to some extent, but 
 especially by the influence of the quack medicine ad- 
 vertisements to believe that medicines cure. lUit the 
 best practioners all over the world have lost their con- 
 fidence in the curative powers of drugs. They believe 
 in germicides and antitoxins, but the old notion that 
 drugs have curative power in the human body is quite 
 well exploded. Germicides, only kill germs. The 
 
64 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 power in the body cures. The statement made to the 
 writer several A'ears ago by tlie bacteriologist of a 
 leading medicial university is the sentiment of thou- 
 sands of other medicial men. He said, '"T have only 
 eight or ten medicines left and T have lost confidence 
 in all but two or three of them." 
 
 The science of using germicides is enlarging, but 
 the practice of indiscriminate drugging is on the 
 wane. We know some excellent physicians who 
 never give a drop of medicine in such cases as Typhoid 
 fever. Pneumonia and Tuberculosis. The best in- 
 formed medical men- are more ready to leave out the 
 use of drugs generally than the people are to have it 
 flonc. As long as the people demand medicines, med- 
 ical men will grant them their desires. If they do not 
 the patients will find some other doctor who will sat- 
 isfy their minds with drugs. When the people get 
 their eyes open they will seek help from those physi- 
 cians and institutions which arc devoted to the use 
 of natural means, win; are teaching the people what 
 natural law is and how to obey it. 
 
 The temperance cause is weak, because people and 
 teachers keep on ascribing power and action to the 
 stinnilants and narcotics. ( )ne who is strong says 
 ''They don't hurt me ;" another says, "They don't afTect 
 me that way": while the man with less vital resist- 
 ance is laid out flat ; and the next time he plans not to 
 take (|uite so nuich. but before he is aware his Ixidily 
 resistance is o\er\\ helmed and lie is laid out again. 
 If all could be made to know that there is neither life, 
 nor fi M ](i iKir sustenance in stimulants, not e\'en in 
 wine or beer or tea or coffee; an<l that whether they 
 are fullv laid out like the othu.r one or not. thev 
 
STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES 65 
 
 arc wasting their life energies needlessly, foolishly 
 yea wickedly, they would never enter n])oil the use 
 of tobacco, liquor, opium, or even beer, or tea and 
 coffee. These things never add anything to the last- 
 ing comfort or well-being of the body. They may 
 satisfy unnatural and depraved appetites, but they 
 pave the way for future distress and disasters. 
 
 A few days since the writer was saying to a veteran 
 smoker that he had asked hundreds of tobacco, users 
 if they could sincerely advise a young man to begin 
 its use and that of all these hundreds only one, had 
 given an affirmative reply. He had had so much com- 
 fort in smoking and chewing that he really thought it 
 would pay a man to begin. "Well." replied the old 
 veteran, "he was a fool." 
 
 The man just fresh from the fray, just sobering 
 up, is always abundantly repentant. If a man delib- 
 erately wants to waste his life and energies and his 
 time and substance, there is n<» i)ower in the universe 
 that ean sa\e him. To have spent life in such a man- 
 ner seems most inglorious. There is something better 
 to live for than the gratification of either a depraved, 
 hereditary, or acquired appetite. Some people can 
 endure such abuses longer than others, because they 
 are constitutionally stronger and have vital power to 
 use in taking care of these poisons. This accounts 
 for some living to be quite old while practicing intem- 
 perance. r>ut does it pay to waste human energy on 
 such filthy, dcl)asing habits? ^'ou would not use your 
 best horse or cow that way. ^'ou give them pure food 
 and water. Why not treat yourself as well?' Take 
 the whoK- tr.-.nsaction of a debauch into account; and 
 is there any pleasure in it? Put the fini>h alongside 
 
66 ESSENTIALS TO UFE AND HEALTH 
 
 of the start and then where is the comfort and fun 
 and profit? Badly mixed, don't you think so? 
 
 The one who indulges his taste for any stimulants 
 even tea and coffee sacrifices life and comfort and 
 peace and rest and joy, and in some cases his self- 
 respect for a momentary gratification of taste, and a 
 temporary exhilaration ; and through over exhaustion 
 of nerve and tissue energies, opens the way for every 
 form of dyspepsia and nervous disorder and unfits 
 himself for the nobler employments of existence. It 
 is the specific poisons which these articles contain 
 which is the cause of the damage to the body. They 
 contain no nutriment, they add nothing to the vital 
 store, but the body wastes its precious energies in 
 disposing of them. The sense of exhilaration which 
 follows the use of stimulants is produced at the ex- 
 pense of the future. The reaction is sure. Sullen- 
 ness, morosity, impatience, weariness and exhaustion 
 follow every marked violation of natural law. The 
 woman who does a hard day's work on a pot of tea 
 has used up life energy which she can never recover. 
 It costs more for the body to dispose of the tea than 
 to do the work if the nerves were free from the slavery 
 of the stimulant. 
 
 The more nearly one lives in harmony with natural 
 law the more sensitive will the body become to the 
 presence of poisons in the vital domain. Let the 
 one unaccustomed to flesh and tea and coflfee take an 
 ordinary evening meal of flesh foods with a strong 
 cup of either beverage and he will have a restless 
 disturbed night and rise in the morning with a sense 
 of trouble in the stomach. He has taken suf!icient 
 poison to rouse the vital resistance of his nervoufe 
 
STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES " 67 
 
 system and has experienced the results. With another 
 accustomed to these thing-.s the body has become toler- 
 ant of the poisons and no noticeable disturbance fol- 
 lows, but he is none the less surely using up vitality 
 tmnecessarily and undermining the foundations of vi- 
 tality. Feed a nest of kittens or young puppies freely 
 on the best meat and they will be all dead or at least 
 will have fits before the day goes round. And they 
 are carnivorous animals. 
 
 It is safe to say that about one-half the energy of 
 mankind is being used up in this self-imposed battle 
 with poisons, just because of the misguided notions 
 and fancies of humanity. The majority would soon 
 be free if they would follow their better judgment. 
 But appetite stands in the way and appetite is a habit 
 which begins in the nerves of the upper part of the 
 alimentary canal and brain, and extends to every tissue 
 cell in the entire body. The whole man becomes en- 
 slaved. 
 
 If one would be free from the grosser forms of in- 
 dulgence let him begin with his table habits. First 
 leave out the free use of flesh in g-eneral, especially 
 smoked meats, then pepper, mustard, vinegar and other 
 condiments, and large quantities of salt. Take the 
 "little foxes" first. He that is temperate in the little 
 things will be temperate in the greater. Fifty years 
 of diligent search does not reveal the case of a single 
 vegetarian who has become a drunkard, and the writer 
 has never known but two drunkards who were not 
 first addicted to tobacco. Habits of taste formed by 
 the use of highly seasoned foods and meats clamor for 
 something a little stronger that will "just touch the 
 spot." Furc water hot or cold drank freely, helps 
 
68 ■ ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 womlerfully in conquering these feverisli intemperate 
 appetites. Good ripened fresli fniit is also cooling to 
 the taste. \Mieat meal or oatmeal and all the entire 
 grain foods which help to regulate the action of* 
 stomach and bowels serve an excelletit purpose in help- 
 mg to balance up the inner man. 
 
 But the way to Freetown is at last by Self-denial 
 Cross Roads up Resolution Lane and it is a straight 
 and narrow way. And there is libert}' and enjoyment 
 in that town as thousands in the years gone h}' have 
 learned by happy experience. The t( \vn is located on 
 an eminence overlooking the most of the world. It is 
 a pretty safe place to live and the cost of living does 
 not compare with the cost of slavery and bondage in 
 the lowlands. Full provision is made for the enter- 
 tainment and residence of all who have come up Reso- 
 lution Lane. There are a lot of nice people in town, 
 and I am impressed that there will be a lot more up 
 from the lowlands, as soon as it dawns on them that 
 conditions of life are so much more enjoyable uj) above 
 those dreaded Cross Roads. T like it up here pretty 
 well, myself. T think you would like it too. I have 
 never known anyone to die from hardship on the road 
 uj). You will find a lot of good people on the way 
 up. slowly, but surely, climbing the heights. Won't 
 you reader, try the trip too? A hearty welcome awaits 
 you. And best of all that spirit of creative power, the 
 Spirit of God, has promised to come to the help of 
 evervonc who opens his heart to recei\c it, and reso- 
 lutely starts out to make the rise. Success to you, 
 reader, in your battle against drugs, stimulants and 
 narcotics in all their forms. 
 
STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES 69 
 
 Opinions of Medical Men. 
 
 The following opinions of eminent medical men 
 quoted from "Home Hand-Book of Domestic Hygiene 
 and Rational Medicine," and from an old volume "How 
 to Live," will help the reader to appreciate the force 
 of our remarks on Drugs and Medicines. 
 
 Dr. Jacob Bigelow, President of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, in one of his published 
 works stated that "the unbiased opinion of most med- 
 ical men of sound judgment and long experience is 
 made up that the amount of death and disaster in the 
 world would be less if all diseases were left to them- 
 selves than it now is under the multiform, reckless, 
 and contradictory modes of practice, good and bad, 
 with which practitioners of diverse denominations 
 carry nu their differences, at the expense of their pa- 
 tients." 
 
 Sir John Forbes, M. D., F. R. S., said, "Some pa- 
 tients get well with the aid of medicines, more with- 
 out it, and still more in spite of it." 
 
 In the Dublin Medical Journal occur these words, 
 "Assuredly the uncertain and most unsatisfactory art 
 that we call medical science is no science at all, but a 
 jumble of inconsistent opinions, of conclusions hastily 
 and often incorrectly drawn, of facts misunderstood or 
 perverted, of comparisons without analogy, of hypoth- 
 eses without reason, and of theories not only useless 
 but dangerous." 
 
 Dr. Bostwick, author of the "History of Medicine," 
 said, "Every dose of medicine given is a blind experi- 
 ment on the vitality of the patient." 
 
 The editor of the Medico-chirurgical Review, James 
 Johnson, M. D., F. R. S., says, "I declare as my con- 
 
70 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 scientious conviction, founded on long experience and 
 reflection, that if there was not a single physician, sur- 
 geon, man-midwife, chemist, apothecary, druggist, nor 
 drug, on the face of the earth, there would be less sick- 
 ness and less mortality than now prevail." 
 
 Prof. J. W. Carson of the New York College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, declares, "We do not know 
 whether our patients recover because we give them 
 medicine or because nature cures them. Perhaps 
 bread-pills would cure as many as medicine." Con- 
 cerning giving medicine to infants he said, "It is easy 
 to destroy the life of an infant. This you will find 
 when you enter practice. You will find that a slight 
 scratch of the pen, which dictates a little too much of 
 a remedy, will snuff out the infant's life ; and when you 
 next visit your patient, you will find that the child 
 which you left cheerful a few hours previously, is stiff 
 and cold. Beware, then, how you use your remedies!" 
 
 And Dr. Alonzo Clark, another professor in the 
 same college, also declares that. "All of our curative 
 agents are poisons, and, as a consequence, every dose 
 diminishes the patient's vitality," and that "in their 
 zeal to do good, physicians have done much harm; 
 they have hurried many to the grave wht) would have 
 recovered if left to nature." 
 
 Professor Martin Paine, of the New ^Ork University 
 Medical College, and Professor Liebig, the German 
 chemist, agree that "drug medicines do but cure one 
 disease by producing another." 
 
 Alex. H. Stephens, M. D.. of the New York College 
 of . Physicians and Surgeons, testifies in a lecture to 
 the medical class : "The older physicians grow, the 
 more .skeptical they become of the virtues of medicine, 
 
STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES 71 
 
 and the more they are disposed to trust to the powers 
 of nature." And aj^ain : "The reason medicine has ad- 
 vanced so slowly, is because physicians have studied 
 the writings of their predecessors, instead of nature." 
 
 Prof. Jos. M. Smith, M. D., of the same school says, 
 "All medicines which enter the circulation, poison the 
 blood in the same manner as do the poisons that pro- 
 duce disease." Again : "Drugs do not cure disease ; 
 disease is always cured by the vis medicatrix naturae." 
 (The healing power of the body.) 
 
 Prof. B. F. P>arker, M. D., said: "The drugs which 
 are administered for the cure of scarlet fever and 
 measles, kill far more than those diseases do. I have 
 recently given no medicine in their treatment, and have 
 had excellent success." 
 
 "I have no faith whatever in medicine." — Dr. Bailie, 
 of London. 
 
 "The medical practice of our day is, at best, a most 
 uncertain and unsatisfactory system ; it has neither 
 ])hilosophy nor common sense to commend it to con- 
 fidence." — Professor Evans. Fellow of the Royal Col- 
 lege, Pondon. 
 
 "Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred med- 
 ical facts are medical lies; and medical doctrines are. 
 for the most part, stark, staring nonsense." — Professor 
 Gregory, of Edinburgh, Scotland. 
 
 These quotations are from the medical men of nearly 
 a generation ago. The last thirty years have seen great 
 advancement toward natural methods. But many still 
 cling to strychnine and other poisons and medicines 
 because it is easier to dope out pills and pellets and 
 powders than to practice sanitarium treatments, and 
 because the people still demand drugs. The best mcd- 
 
72 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 ical men now ,^et their very sick patients int() the 
 hospital or a sanitarium or secure a trained nurse so 
 that more rational methods are prevailing". This has 
 come about largely through the influence of a few 
 earnest workers who have taught the people to de- 
 mand better methods. 
 
 We greatly desire the reader to follow on carefully 
 and learn all he can for himself of the use of natural 
 means and thus get his mind disabused more fully of 
 the notion that drugs cure. 
 
 Their use, it is true, does have a salutary effect on 
 the mind of the patient who feels such a confidence in 
 the remedy swallowed as to make him forget his little 
 troubles and come to a point of rest. Many a wise 
 old physician has fed his patients bread pills or doc- 
 tored them with colored water and kept them quiet 
 a few days, when he knew all they needed was rest 
 and assurance. 
 
 Patent Medicines. 
 
 The writers of Patent Medicine ad's seem to be 
 possessed of a peculiar inspiration. The average af- 
 flicted reader, as soon as she begins to read the long 
 list of symptoms, begins to feel the symptoms in her 
 own body. If she is not at the moment experiencing 
 the sensations pictured she remembers having them 
 a few days since. And there is such a satisfaction to 
 the chronic invalid in reading literature that so per- 
 fectly pictures one's own feelings. At once a bond 
 of sympathy, through confidence gained, springs up 
 between the afflicted soul and the concern that is of- 
 fering the remedy. It is such a satisfaction to the af- 
 flicted mind to find someone or something that knows 
 
STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES 73 
 
 how to appreciate physical sufferings, for such the 
 multitudious symptoms do become. And then begins 
 the craving" for the remedy, which, confidence says, 
 is so perfectly adapted to such cases. Such a con- 
 fidence and sympathy is begotten between the poor 
 sufferer and the newly found philanthropist ( ?) as al- 
 most for the time out-rivals Christian experience. Then 
 comes the trial of the medicine, the first six bottles 
 for five dollars. The confidence and trust begotten 
 I)y the advertisement ought to, and does do much to 
 quiet the mind. The hope of relief brings some rest 
 to the troubled soul and works relief. The same con- 
 fidence established in a hygienic procedure would 
 result in lasting good. Perhaps the medicine acts as 
 a cathartic, they most all do. Of course there is a 
 temporary relief for some of the bad symptoms. Quite 
 likely there is a large portion of alcoholic stimulants 
 in ihe newly purchased remedy. If so the invalid will 
 know at once that "it docs do me good" by his own 
 experience. If there are a few hygienic suggestions 
 in the patent medicine literature, and quite generally 
 nowadays there are, and the invalid can be induced to 
 follow one or two of these suggestions good will 
 result to the patient and the medicine will get the 
 credit. It is the fashion in our times to float Patent 
 Medicines on a few^ slabs of hygienic truth. If only 
 once the people's minds could be cleared of the idea 
 that medicines cure, it would be the end of this w*hole 
 business. The patent medicine man gets up a first- 
 class almanac calendar for the year, filling it with his 
 philanthropic posings, in which he would have it 
 strongly impressed that he is a public benefactor, that 
 all his efforts are inspired by di'^interested love of 
 
74 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 humanity. This farce is kept up for long years after 
 the original proprietor is dead, as is now the case with 
 one noted line of remedies. The name of the old lady, 
 dead and buried several years ago, is still used as a 
 bait to induce confiding females to unbosom their pri- 
 vate troubles for free advice and their letters are now 
 opened and answered by the mercenary chap who be- 
 came the legal business successor to the original pro- 
 prietor. There is no love of mankind in the whole 
 line of business. It is an effort to exploit suffering 
 weak humanity for the money that can be gained by 
 the scheme. We have no hesitation in saying that 
 whoever adopts the patent medicine methods, whether 
 he be a food promoter or a sanitarium manager, and 
 works from the same mercenary motives is worthy 
 of no more confidence or patronage than the veriest 
 quack. When foods, no matter how good they are, 
 thai cost three or four cents to manufacture are sold 
 for fifteen or twenty cents and the effort is heroically 
 kept up to produce an idea in the minds of the people 
 that nothing else will meet the demands of nature, 
 we say unhesitatingly that this is mercenary quackery 
 and a few years only will suffice to develop the truth 
 fully to the people. Let the people be taught what it 
 truly means to come back to nature, and quackery in 
 all its forms will become, for want of patronage, a 
 thing of the past. 
 
 Many patent medicines and other quackish articles 
 owe their success to the euphonious names under 
 which they are paraded before a sentimental public. 
 The smooth fluent mysterious jingle of the name of 
 some "newly discovered," "far fetched," "hitherto un- 
 known," "Hindoo," "Egyptian" or "Indian" remedy is 
 
STIMULANTS, NARCOTICS AND MEDICINES 75 
 
 generally about the best recommendation that the 
 medicine has. 
 
 Men and women need more L,'ood hard sense and 
 less sentimentalism. nu)re caution and less credulity, 
 more trust in nature and less confidence in the lying 
 pretensions of mercenary quacks or any other class of 
 pretenders. 
 
 A TESTIMONIAL. 
 
 By Wallace Irwin, in Collier's Weekly. 
 
 I 
 
 THOUGHT tliat my health was as good as the next. 
 But learned it was terribly bad; 
 For I found, after readinj:j the newspaper text 
 
 Of a loud patent-medicine ad. 
 That mushrooms were growing all over my liver. 
 
 That something was loose in my heart. 
 'I'liat line to my sjileen all my ner\'es had turned green 
 
 And my lungs were not doing their part. 
 I wrote Dr. Sharko and got as an answer, 
 "The wart on your thumb is incipient cancer." 
 
 I've taken Ze-ru-na for forty-nine days, 
 
 And Scamp Hark, my symptoms to gag; 
 And isn't it queer — all my pains disappear 
 
 When the medicine gives me a jagl 
 A ''lovely sensation'" I get from them all 
 
 Which banishes carking annoy. 
 So gayly T drink 'em — and Lydia Pinkum 
 
 Has added her quota of joy. 
 .\nd I've sent Dr. Bogie a neat little sum 
 For "radium tests" on the wart on my thumb. 
 
 When Baby is restless a bottle T keep 
 
 Of Ma Winslow's Syrup. It takes 
 .\ spoonful of poison to put him to sleep 
 
 And another one when he awakes; 
 He lies in a paralyzed, hypnotized state. 
 
 So calm you can see at a glance 
 That the dear little chick sleeps as sound as a brick 
 
 When he's neatly laid out in a trance; 
 .\nd I'm sure every ilother could learn, if she would 
 Tliie knock-out-drop method to keep Raby good. 
 
76 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 While reading bii^jlit essays on "wonderful cures'' 
 
 In decent nevvsi)a|)ers each day 
 I see all ilie symptoms our tired flesli onduies 
 
 And fly to my drugs in dismay. 
 I've Snydrozone, Fakeozone stocked on mv shelf 
 
 With 'Horner's Safe Waters of Life: 
 I'm taking three-fourths of the tipple myself 
 
 And giving the rest to my Wife — - 
 And if there is anything left after that 
 I give it to Adniiial Togo, the cat. 
 
 So this Testimonial I would indorse 
 
 To give all Poor Sufferers hope. 
 Much pain I've endured, but I'm "Positive Cured" — 
 
 So long as I'm taking the dope. 
 The baby has spasms, my Wife's throwing fits, 
 
 And I'm feeling fuzzy and bad — 
 For I feel we've amassed all the symptoms at last 
 
 Which yon read in the medicine ad. 
 The Ready-made Cure and the Angels who make it 
 Thus comfort and liless the poor Clu-nnics who take it I 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 Gifts of Healings and Miracles, 
 
 Gifts of Healings. Before proceeding in the next 
 chapter tu the consideration of disease and its causes, 
 and the proper treatment b}- means of the principles 
 already set forth, we desire to place before the reader 
 the method which the Heavenly Father has set forth 
 in His word, of dealing with all the necessities of His 
 people. In I Cor. 12, is stated the doctrine of those 
 gifts with which the Creator endows those of His 
 creatures who seek to know Him and walk in His 
 ways. The whole chapter is given to the subject. In 
 verse 28 the apostle says, "God hath set some in the 
 cluirch, tirst apostles, secondaril\- prophets, thirdly 
 teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, 
 helps, governments, etc." The same writer in Eph. 4, 
 says, "He gave some apostles and some prophets, and 
 some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers." It 
 is sufficient for illustration to call attention to some 
 of these inspired natural talents. The pastor is one 
 who is naturally a shepherd and the teacher one who 
 is naturally gifted for teaching and the helps and gov- 
 crnnunts are of the same class. "The Word of Wis- 
 dom" and the "word of knowledge" and the gift of 
 faith" (see I Cor. 12:8, 9), are to men who arc natur- 
 ally fitted to exercise these gifts. "To him that hath 
 shall be oiven." "He who giveth to all men liberally" 
 
78 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 "divides" to every man "according to his several abil- 
 ity." 
 
 The statement of Daniel, the prophet, "He giveth 
 wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that 
 know understanding," Dan. 2:21, completely illustrates 
 the basis on which God gifts men. He gives to them 
 that have. According to the natural and acquired 
 ability He bestows spiritual helps. So in the gifts 
 of healings, those who have natural and acquired abil- 
 ity in caring for the health of the people will receive, 
 if connected with God, a full special endowment of 
 Divine grace and aid in the use of heaven's own ap- 
 pointed remedies, and these workers must get their 
 credentials from the great Healer, who is no respecter 
 of persons, even tho, like Moses, Daniel, or Paul, 
 they may have been schooled in the greatest institu- 
 tions of human learning. In this perverted world 
 there is as much need of divine enlightenment in the 
 diagnosis of disease and the application of natural 
 remedies as in the gift of the "Word of Wisdom" and 
 its application to all the outward relationships of life ; 
 and many an ungodly physician feels this need though 
 he may not acknowledge it. 
 
 All healing accomplished through natural law is 
 natural healing even though God ordained the Laws 
 of Nature and sometimes aids men in the work of 
 healing; and (iod's worst enemy can use natural law 
 in healing disease, but this would not be divine heal- 
 ing. The divine element appears in the working of 
 miracles which, through the direct power of God, 
 transcend natural law. 
 
 The very things which, properly used, will preserve 
 life, will also, if skillfully used, enable the sick to re- 
 
GIFTS OF HEATvINGS AND MIRACLES 79 
 
 cover. God has not left His people helpless under the 
 power of disease. His word contains a fund of instruc- 
 tion. He teaches them the way of life and more than 
 that, gifts men with power in the things of life. We 
 have no hesitation in saying that these seven things 
 on which life depends are as much the things of God 
 as is life itself, and that the Gifts of Healings are the 
 especial endowment of wisdom from the Spirit of God 
 in the use of these natural means in restoring the sick. 
 The Law of Rest as a natural means in the healing 
 of the sick involves the cure of nine-tenths of all hu- 
 man ailments through the restoration of peace, joy and 
 quietness in the mind by bringing in a state of confi- 
 dence and trust into the soul. This kind of work is 
 not divine healing, in the high sense of that term, it is 
 only a natural application of the Law of Rest. If it 
 be divine then the devil and wicked men can become 
 divine healers. But it requires more than human skill 
 to deal with some natural mental causes and here 
 appears fully the necessity for the "gifts" of healings. 
 
 Miraculous Healing. 
 
 Some anxious, earnest Christians are longing for 
 a manifestation of miracles. Others ignore them 
 and deny their existence today. What is a mira- 
 cle? It may be a suspension of natural law; as when 
 the Red Sea was walled up for Israel to pass thru. 
 It may be an acceleration of natural law, as at Cana 
 when water was changed to wine. It may be a direct 
 act of creative power, as when the loaves and fishes 
 were multiplied in the Master's hands to feed the mul- 
 titude. It may be a lifting of the curse for the viola- 
 tion of natural law, as in the cure of leprosy, palsy 
 
80 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 or fever or the removal of the effects of other diseases. 
 If the reader has taken note, in reading the Bible rec- 
 ord, he has observed that nearly all of the miracles 
 of healing- were performed on what we generally con- 
 sider to be hopeless cases. In those cases where 
 natural means are sufficient to eft'ect a cure it would 
 not be reasonable to suppose that God would interpose 
 a miracle. Nor could a reasonable person ask him to 
 do so. In this we do not wish to be understood as pro- 
 claiming that ijod never works miraculously onlv for 
 strictly incurable cases. We believe He is ready to 
 work miraculously for any case that is not criminally 
 negligent of natural law. There are thousands who 
 are doing the best they know in their ignorance of 
 health ])rinciples. (_)ur Heaveidy Father is readv to 
 work miraculiuisl}' for such in their extremity, but 
 this would not justif}' them in remaining in ignorance. 
 We have stated the general principle of the relation- 
 ships between miracles and inspired natural healing 
 for those wdio ought to be intelligent in natural law. 
 To illustrate; suppose a person has cold feet and 
 hands,. and a severe headache due in part to drinking 
 string tea or coffee. Shall we make such a case the 
 subject of prayer and expect a miracle of healing? It 
 lodks as if the sensible thing to do would be to cast 
 aside the drug, take a hot foot bath and drink a few 
 cups of hot water to wash out the poison from the 
 bill! 1(1 ill a natural wa}'. (iod in\ites us to do what we 
 can for ourselves, and reserves miracles for our extrem- 
 it\-. Instead of demanding of God to take charge of our 
 cases and keep us well, will it not be wise for his pro- 
 fessing children to learn all tlu'\' can of natural reme- 
 dies: asking Him for wisdom in their use for the pres- 
 
GIFT OF HEALINGS AND MIRACLES 81 
 
 ervation and restoration of health? If we will not eat 
 and drink and breathe as we ought, how can we ask 
 God to work miracles in our behalf? 
 
 If God should interfere niiraculously in the cure of 
 every ailment He would be placing a premium on the 
 violation of His own Laws in Nature. 
 
 There is little doubt but this neglect of natural law 
 has put miracles far away from Christian people. It 
 ought not so to be. A people doing the best they know 
 to keep in touch with the Creator through daily obedi- 
 ence to His laws, may have boldness in the day of in- 
 curable ailments or in the day of ignorance, to ask 
 God if it can honor Him to interfere in their behalf, 
 and save tliem for His own name's sake. There is 
 hope in such cases that Jehovah will lend a listening 
 ear. Such cases are on record in these very days. And 
 there will be more of them as His children learn to 
 obey and trust. God has not forsaken ilis humble 
 trusting people; but He is as truly working for their 
 well being through natural means when they are obe- 
 dient, as He is when working miracles for them. 
 
 Rut death even is not the worst thing that can come 
 to a child of God. The fiat went forth at the closing- 
 doors of Eden. "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou 
 return." A heart unreconciled to the will of God and 
 a faith that cannot return to the Creator all He has 
 given us, even life itself, and trust him till the new 
 creation, "the restitution (^f all things spoken of by 
 the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world 
 began," such a feeble faith would not be sufficient to 
 li\e 1)\' if all our ills were renioxed an<l eternal life 
 "ranted to us here and now. Passing down into the 
 shadow of death is the one supreme test of faith, and 
 
82 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 the assurances of a resurrection are ample if we only 
 grasp them. 
 
 Like Naaman, the Captain General of the Syrian 
 host, many in these days despise the simple, common 
 everyday means that may be used in the cure of dis- 
 ease. When told to take seven baths in Jordan he went 
 away in a great rage. He said, "Behold, I thought, 
 He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call 
 on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand 
 over the place and recover the leper." II Kings 5:n. 
 He wanted to see a demonstration. The love of the 
 marvelous and romantic still prevails. You hear peo- 
 ple say in these days with measured emphasis, "Well, 
 the Doctor told me that my boy had the very worst 
 case of diphtheria he ever saw in all his practice." We 
 hear such remarks frequently. Many physicians de- 
 sire the people to think that they have had a most 
 wonderful deliverance from death through some won- 
 derful secret remedy, that "just acted like magic." We 
 often hear it said, "You sent for me just in time." 
 
 ^lost of the people are not prepared to appreciate or 
 even recognize the worth of natural agents in curing 
 disease. This leads them to look for some marvelous, 
 new, far-fetched and dearly bought remedy, with a- 
 strange euphonious name, that the grandmothers may 
 have used under the name of "soda, mint and rhubarb" 
 or "pink root and senna." It is this foolish craze for 
 some marvelous deliverance, for some strange thing, 
 that makes it possible to humbug mankind. 
 
 Some of the pious people overlook the natural reme- 
 dies and agonize in prayer for some miracle to be 
 wrought in their behalf; when the discarding of tea or 
 coffee or pork, or the drinking of two or three extra 
 
GIFT OF HEALINGS AND MIRACLES 83 
 
 glasses of water daily, or a little effort at breathing, or 
 throwing their worrying overboard would have set 
 them all right. 
 
 Those who claim to be divine healers and yet ignore 
 natural law and its application to the relief of the 
 sick give full evidence that they are not in harmony 
 with the Author of life. He made life dependent on 
 the things with which we are dealing. When this de- 
 pendence is ignored the healer has cut the chains which 
 moored him to the Divine. What is the sense in as- 
 suming that God and Christ will work for the sick, 
 miraculoush', when the very natural things that are 
 ignored and trodden in the mire of Self-Conceit and 
 demonology if applied would give perfect cure to the 
 afflicted? Men and women almost everywhere need 
 to be reformed, not emotionalized. Divine (?) healing 
 that is not in harmony with the Creator is simply a 
 counterfeit. It is a part of that wonder-working fore- 
 told by many of the old prophets and by the Master 
 himself. 
 
 Others who deny the ()i)eratitin of divine power 
 only through natural law place themselves in a posi- 
 tion where it is impossible for God to work miracu- 
 lously for them. Those who believe and trust and truly 
 seek fellowship with Him are the only ones for whom 
 God could safely transcend natural law. There are 
 few today who could, without becoming conceited, 
 bear in their own persons the power to work miracles 
 or could endure this endowment without spiritual in- 
 jury. Foolish humanity would soon flatter them into 
 self-exaltation. Men think they are morally and men- 
 tally strong nowadays, but oh how weak, when tested 
 by the divine standard. How small a circumstance re- 
 
84 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 \-eals the folly. The writer believes that the Heavenly 
 Father is graciously waiting; even now to manifest His 
 creative power in a special manner in the recovery of 
 the sick and He will whenever he finds those whom 
 this divine aid will not spoil. He that has been faith- 
 ful in that which is least will Ije faithful also in the 
 greater things. Men and women who ha\e learned 
 to love God for His revelations of himself to them, 
 through nature and His word, will be ])cst fitted to 
 endure and profit by a miraculous revelation. There 
 have been such manifestations occasionally all along 
 the course of time. Jn our time there are an abund- 
 ance of counterfeits which pass current ijuite generally 
 because men and women know so little of wdiat 
 heaven's bank note detecter, the Old Bible, contains. 
 There arc a lot of bills — promises of life and reward — 
 afloat today that will never pass the test of Heaven's 
 Clearing House. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 Disease and Its Causes. 
 
 Though there are several hundred diseases listed 
 and described in the great medical works, yet the 
 principles underlying all are comparatively few. Con- 
 gestion is the same anywhere in the body, and is not a 
 different disease in one organ from what it is in an- 
 other. The same is true of inflammation, and so on of 
 many conditions; even pain is nearly always from the 
 same general causes, no matter in what organ it is 
 located. For practical work in the care of the sick 
 it is not al.)solutely necessar}' to name congestion of 
 the throat, pharyngitis, and in the brain call it hypere- 
 mia. Congestion is congestion wherever it is fecund 
 and the same general ]ilan that will relieve it in one 
 organ will relieve ii in another. So of every other 
 class of disturbance. 
 
 If, as we have shown in former chapters, the Essen- 
 tials of Life and Health are comprised under seven 
 heads : then ii is ])lain that every deviation from'health, 
 except diseases of heredity, is due to some deviation 
 from these Essentials and the Laws of Life growing 
 out of them. To illustrate: If one eats pork and fine 
 flour In'cad, and drinks some liquor, even though no 
 stronger than wine <r beer, and tea and coffee, and 
 uses tobacco, he will be imposing burdens on his di- 
 gestive and nerxous systems, which will manifest 
 
86 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 results in the form of headaches, duHness of mind, 
 fits of temper, disturbances in the stomach and bowels 
 and liver, coldness of the hands and feet, and inactivity 
 of the skin, and a numerous list uf other symptoms. 
 He will have a lot of trouble in his ups and downs be- 
 tween one kind of wretchedness and another. Usually 
 such indulgences use the man up, so that as early as 
 the age of forty or fifty he is taken away by an attack 
 of fever, or pneumonia or apoplexy. But a man or 
 woman need indulge in only a portion of these abom- 
 inable things in order to be supremely wretched. Being 
 brought up on these things as man}- have been, they 
 have no true standard of health or physical comfort. 
 They may have always been miserable, suffering with 
 headaches, or stomach or bowel difficulties. They 
 think they are as well as anybody, just because they 
 are not sick in l)ed. They ne\er have known what 
 it was to have a clear head and quiet nerves for a single 
 moment of their lives; hence they have no correct 
 standard for the measurement of health. 
 
 Suppose a person lives largely on fine flour bread 
 or crackers, and potatoes with meat and a good sprin- 
 kling of pepper, vinegar, and mustard. If such a one 
 suffers with constipation and kidney trouble and 
 rheumatism and thirst for liquor, it is only a natural 
 consequence of his food habits. He finds cathartics a 
 necessity because he does not know liow to select 
 proper food. 
 
 Again suppose the individual neglects water drink- 
 ing, and allows his fluid circulation to thicken until 
 the heart palpitates, and throbs and labors and misses 
 beats in its efforts to drive the heavy, thickened fluids 
 through the fine passages. Will it be any wonder if 
 
DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES 87 
 
 neuralgic pains follow the crystallization of uric acid 
 in the nerves and about the gristly tissues of the 
 joints? Any wonder if such an one has headaches and 
 stupidity of the mental faculties? Any wonder that 
 the bowels dry up? 
 
 Again suppose that there is a family that do not 
 half breathe, that shut themselves up away from the 
 sunlight in a stuffy close house until they look pale 
 and anemic and bloodless. They may have gotten 
 hold of some ideas about correct diet. That will not 
 save them if the blood is not cleaned with the oxygen 
 and the light. 
 
 And if we find people who have quite a good knowl- 
 edge of all the principles of health, and yet go about 
 half clad, with their children half clothed, the floors 
 of the house so cold and open that everybody has 
 cold feet and limbs, and baby is lialf frozen all the 
 day long; need you be surprised if that family have 
 snuffles and catarrh and colds and influenza, and if 
 they become a prey to diphtheria and pneumonia or 
 consumption. Need the preacher at the funeral call 
 it a wonderful dispensation of Divine Providence when 
 it was only a dispensation of poverty, ignorance or 
 neglect? 
 
 But suppose there is a man who is quite careful how 
 he feeds and drinks and clothes himself, and keeps 
 warm, but was unfortunate enough to have been "born 
 tired." What can be expected for him after a few 
 years of idleness and do-nothing? Tf physical decay 
 and old age creep on in the middle of life, just because 
 he did not stir about enough to carry off the waste 
 from his bodv. will he or anvone else have a right to 
 
88 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 find fault witli Providence for the disasters consequent 
 on Ills dislike for labor? 
 
 But ao;ain, here is a class of good pious Christians, 
 both brethren and sisters, so full of care, anxiety, 
 worry and mental distress, perhaps over their own or 
 possibly some other one's sin, suffering or poverty, or 
 over the temperance cause, or the conditions of morals 
 in the church and world. They are at it from earlv 
 morn till dewy eve. Worry, worry, wcrr}'. Perhaps 
 they pray earnestly. What wonder if such forget to 
 breathe, to drink, to eat, and to clothe themselves 
 properly, or attend to their own natural wants? What 
 wonder if after a few years their bodies are so worn 
 out for want of rest and nutrition that cases of nervous 
 prostration or insanity develop? Again will the pious 
 Dominic la}' the blame at the door of an all-wise Provi- 
 dence? Undoubtedly. We are tired of seeing men 
 and women cast away common sense. Again we say 
 they use their dumb brutes J^etter than they do them- 
 selves. When the human mind and body need rest, 
 there is nothing in the uni\crse that will take the 
 place of it. 
 
 Perhaps the individual is so filled with the cares 
 of this life that he does not ha\e time to see that 
 the air and water supply is kept pure. The soft coal 
 smoke nuisance or the breathing of dust may have 
 weakened the lungs and prepared them for an attack 
 of pneumonia or tuberculosis. Perhaps the cows are 
 drinking from a polluted stream, or possibly the barn- 
 vard cr j^rivy \ault is draining into the well. This 
 may and often does mean death by typhoid fever. The 
 family may have been slothful about providing screens 
 for doors and windows. The flies may have brought 
 
DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES 89 
 
 germs to the food on the pantry shelves, or the mos- 
 quitoes may have brought infection of malaria or yel- 
 low fever to some member of the family; or possibly 
 the pestiferous little flea may have wandered away 
 from the bubonic plague infected rat and taken up 
 his residence with the family, and one or more of the 
 family may have been poisoned with this deadly virus. 
 These are not imaginary possibilities, they are the 
 stern realities of today. Men must wake up to the 
 subject of prevention ; to hygiene in all its simplicity 
 and effectiveness. 
 
 When these laws of nature, to the violation of which 
 we have just called attention are thus disregarded, 
 every organ in the body must suffer, some more, some 
 less. When the first symptoms of suffering come is 
 the time to call a halt and inquire wherein am I out 
 of harmony with natural laws? In some cases we 
 should not wait for first symptoms but take steps to 
 prevent even the occurrence of symptoms. Do not at 
 any rate wait till some vital organ breaks down and 
 you are compelled to lie for weeks on a bed of sickness. 
 To briefly sum up these causes, disease may be pro- 
 duced, first, by hereditary transmission ; second, by per- 
 sonal violations of natural law; third, by germ infec- 
 tion through the air or water, or food; fourth, by in- 
 sect or reptile bites ; fifth, by infection through newly 
 made wounds, as in cases of blood poisoning; 
 sixth, by accident. Of all these causes by far the most 
 fruitful is personal violation of law. This breaks down 
 vital resistance, and prepares the way for germ infec- 
 tions of every class. 
 
 Germ infections are much less frequent in those who 
 have kept themselves physically toned up by obedi- 
 
90 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AKD HEALTH 
 
 ence, and such are better prepared to withstand the 
 inroads of blood poisoning and they will get well of 
 accidents much quicker. Good digestion and assimila- 
 tion fortify the body against the attacks of disease. 
 In nearly every case of sickness there is a disturbance 
 in the circulation of the blood ; too much blood in one 
 organ or part and net enough in another. It is a 
 common thing to find the skin cold, and internal or- 
 gans congested. Sometimes the feet and hands are 
 cold and the head hot. The thing to do is to equalize 
 the circulation as soon as possible, and keep it equal- 
 ized. Most troubles begin with abuses of the stomach. 
 Instead of inquiring, where is a bottle that I can take 
 some medicine out of to cure my stomach, just reflect 
 on the probable abuse you have been inflicting on 
 your stomach or some other physically bad thing you 
 have been doing, and then leave cff that abuse. If 
 some Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or birthday or pic- 
 nic dinner has made you trouble, take a lesson, and 
 watch that you do not take the whole bill of fare next 
 time. It may look like a great loss that you suffer in 
 passing by a part of the bill of fare, but it will doubt- 
 less cost you less to deny self than to endure the pain 
 and hairpulling, and the doctor's bills that arc in store 
 for the over-indulgent. 
 
 The good housewife should learn to prepare less 
 variety for each meal, thus reducing temptation to 
 its lowest terms. Variety may be introduced from 
 meal to meal. We might multiply suggestions along 
 these lines for many pages, but a few words to the 
 wise ought to suffice. Always bear in mind that an 
 "ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure" every- 
 where and all the time, and that "to be hygiene in 
 spots may add years to one's life." 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 Mental Causes and Mental Remedies. 
 
 In this chapter the careful reader will observe more 
 or less of repetition of some of the leading" thoughts, 
 but each time in somewhat new relationships or phases 
 of the subject. A subject so new as this one. will 
 bear a little more of reiteration than an old theme 
 with which every one may be more or less familiar. 
 There is still an immense field for thought and ex- 
 pression left untouched and the writer does not yet 
 feel capable of the task of sifting everything on the 
 Law of Rest and reducing expression to its lowest 
 terms. It will not surprise him if others shall take 
 up this topic and amplify it much more than he ha?- 
 done. 
 
 In considering this great subject we shall have t" 
 dig deeper into the Law of Rest than we have yet 
 done. We shall also, in order to bring- out the truth 
 even in outline, have to consider some phases of the 
 question which are not usually considered in Medical 
 or Hygienic Works. We shall reach the point where 
 Spiritual Law in the Natural World has its fullest 
 application. Drummond tried to show us the appli- 
 cation of "Natural Law in the Spiritual World." We 
 think we can reverse this title and look backward and 
 downward from the heights of Spiritual Law and 
 sec its application to the things of the Natural World. 
 
92 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 The Law of Rest is not only the chief corner stone ot 
 the laws of this life, but it is the foundation of all 
 forms of religion, both true and false. Religion is any 
 system of faith and worship. Many religions have 
 been invented by men to secure peace here by insuring 
 the life to come. This would seem from outward ap- 
 pearances to be the mission of religion. But of late 
 some phases of religion have appeared which are 
 making more of an application of the Law of Rest to 
 the life that now is than has been the habit in by- 
 gone years. But they are using forms of mysticism 
 and phases of occultism to produce results instead 
 of openly and plainly using the ideas and language 
 of simple natural law and making application of this 
 law in its simplicity. The Law of Rest is appealed 
 to under other iianies and terms and the other prin 
 ciples of natural law are ignored. 
 
 The Law of Rest, being the chief corner stone of 
 Hygiene and the foundation of Religion, places true 
 religion in a very close relationship with the Laws of 
 Hygiene. "Godliness (true religion) is profitable in 
 all things, having promise of the life that now is and 
 of that which is to come." T Tim. 4:8. "Beloved, 1 
 wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be 
 in health even as thy soul prospereth." HI John 2. 
 True Hygiene and religion are inseparably connected. 
 True Hygiene deals with life here as the beginning 
 of the eternal life. True religion deals with this phase 
 of life and with the life to come, also inseparably con- 
 necting . the two. Any religion which ignores the 
 divine laws of nature will ignore the moral law when 
 it crosses that form of religion. A religion which 
 l)roniiscs peace and rest without obedience promises 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 93 
 
 citizenshii-) without loyalty. The wise man will want 
 a religion which recognizes and regulates the rela- 
 tions of this life so that it will merge naturally and 
 smoothly into the life to come. 
 
 Let us Analyze the Law of Rest and see how re- 
 ligion and hygiene both grow out of it and how the 
 two stand related in this law. First, analysis on the 
 basis of matter and mind gives us physical and mental 
 rest. Physical rest is so well understood we will not 
 stop to dwell on it now. But it all depends on the 
 mental status. Without mental rest there can be no 
 form of physical repose. The recuperation of the 
 physical man depends largely on the mental condi- 
 tions and in turn the mental states are very dependent 
 on the physical conditions. The man under the con- 
 trol of intemperate habits is sure to have a disordered 
 mind devoid of true mental rest. There is a relation- 
 ship of mutual dependence between the mind and bod} 
 which will appear more fully as we proceed. Mental 
 Rest is classified as Natural or Spiritual according tc 
 the nature of the foundations on which the confidence 
 is placed. Rest, peace, repose are the immediate re- 
 sults of faith, trust, confidence. The quality of the 
 rest and peace will depend entirely on the nature oi' 
 the objects on which the mind chooses to place its 
 reliance. .-\ man may rest in the assurance of his fel- 
 low man or he may trust in the forces that are con- 
 stantly working in nature, he may trust in some law 
 of hygiene or in some scheme of his own devising, 
 he may be led to ])lacc confidence in a pleasing false 
 hood. The permanence and quality of his peace and 
 rest all depend on the stability and character of th< 
 basis. The fellow man mav fail : so mav his schemes. 
 
94 ESSEJNTIALrS TO L,IFE AND HEALTH 
 
 The pleasing falsehood may be unmasked. The forces 
 of nature ma)'- become disordered. This trust in our 
 natural surroundings brings not the perfect peace. To 
 trust in Creative power as we see it manifest in the 
 sun, moon and stars and on our own planet does not 
 get beyond the natural form of mental rest. One 
 step farther before we reach the spiritual form. We 
 must ha\e a personal acquaintance with the Creator 
 of all these things ; then may we have 
 
 Spiritual Rest. 
 
 This means fellowship with the Father above. There 
 is nothing mystical about this rest. It is not a far 
 away dream, a mere phantasma of the human mind 
 and will. It is not an ecstatic state of mind e\olved 
 from one's own inner consciousness. It is just as 
 easy of comprehension as the relationship of loving 
 trust and peace that exists between a true child and 
 its faithful parent. There is no mystery whatever 
 about it. It is more than resting in creative power; 
 it is knowing the Creator himself thru the indwell- 
 ing of the Spirit which he sends to preside in our frail 
 bodies when we ourselves present our bodies to ])c 
 the Temples of His Spirit. We may admire the 
 genius, the mental qualities and the power of thought 
 that produces and executes the plan for some grand 
 work of art. lUit it is a vastly different state of mind 
 that takes possession of us when we come to really 
 know the artist, to be at home in his presence, to 
 trust him personally and love him for what he is, 
 and feel our love reciprocated. To feel that he is a 
 faithful and true friend with whom we may have 
 bosom companionship, to know that he will be true 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 95 
 
 to our interests as well as his own ; this is a faint con- 
 ception of Fellowship with the Divine. Earth's best 
 illustrations of fellowship are marred by imperfections 
 and there are but few that approximate to the ideal. 
 To be "in tune with the infinite" in nature is not 
 necessarily to know God and have fellowship with 
 Him; but to have fellowship with Him is to be in 
 perfect harmony with all His works and laws. 
 
 There remains in every soul the shadow of a longing 
 for companionship, a disposition to lean toward some 
 one who is equal or superior for help, counsel and 
 guidance. The Divine Spirit as it broods over a fallen 
 race, wooing them back toward fellowship with 
 the Heavenly Father, is often repulsed or disregarded 
 because of the dullness of this filial sense in mankind. 
 Humanity has been so deceived, so disappointed from 
 childhood up that it distrusts and doubts almost every- 
 thing; even the Divine impulses within. 
 
 A Sense of Personality is necessary in order to an 
 appreciation of the Creator. There can be no fellow- 
 ship without a sense of the personality of the thing 
 fellowshipped. You cannot fellowship the laws of 
 nature or the law of gravitation or even creative 
 power. There must be a person or a being whom we 
 can appreciate and who appreciates us before we can 
 think of fellowship. Fellowship is harmonious agree- 
 ment with another being. Thought responds to 
 thought and heart to heart. The Bible, when read 
 with a loving tender heart or with even an inquiring 
 heart, reveals a being who knows what is in man. Ht- 
 knows every pang of sorrow, every struggling effort of 
 the soul to be free, every longing aspiration for a 
 better state of being within. He invites the creature's 
 
96 ESSENTIALS TO LIB^E AND HEALTH 
 
 confidence and only asks him to come into harmony 
 with the Divine mind. Man, through generations of 
 self management, finds it difficult to at once yield fully 
 to the drawing impulses of the Divine heart, but when 
 he begins to yield the fellowship begins. Then com- 
 mences the new life which grows and expands and 
 becomes beautiful as the fellowship becomes more har- 
 monious and intimate. 
 
 Evolution. 
 
 From the time when evolution began to prevail in 
 so-called Christian lands all the new forms of religious 
 thought have sought to eliminate every idea of per- 
 sonality in the Deity and represent Him as a mere 
 force or power or life — a shadowy essence pervading 
 all things material. This we are encouraged to think 
 is the God of the universe. He it is in every man and 
 everything. This doctrine is not new. It has been 
 known in India and China and Japan from time im- 
 memorial. Its former name was Pan-the-ism ; — Pan 
 — all, Theos — god, ism — a doctrine : the doctrine that 
 all things or the soul in all things constitutes God. 
 Now we hear much of the "allness" of God, of the 
 "imminent God," that "all is God (good)" and "God 
 is all." This doctrine is fatal to all fellowship with 
 "Him in whose hand is the s<^ul of every living thing 
 and the breath of all mankind." 
 
 The Creator Misrepresented. 
 
 This Heavenly Father has been badly misrepre- 
 sented to the children of men even by His professed 
 children. He has been made to appear as a god of 
 wrath and vindictiveness. The doctrine of an eter- 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 97 
 
 nally burning hell has done much to wither and sear 
 human hearts. The words "fear of God" and "wrath 
 of God," and the term "jealous God" have been made 
 to apply in their worst light to him who is infinite in 
 love and mercy, "whose tender mercies are over all 
 his works." Perhaps the baser meaning has been 
 put to the terms "fear" and "wrath" because of the 
 awfulness of the "eternal hell fire" doctrine. If "fear" 
 had been taken in the sense of "reverence" and 
 "wrath" in the sense of "divine Justice" and "jealous" 
 in its nobler sense of "vigorous in guarding," and that 
 horrible doctrine of infinite punishment for finite sins 
 had not come into the church the world today would 
 have been much nearer in fellowship with a loving 
 tender Heavenly Father, whose pity and mercy knows 
 no bounds. It is these false notions of God that have 
 made it possible for old Pantheism to rear its head in 
 Christian lands and prepare itself for the task of dig- 
 ging the grave of pure Christianity. Where this Pan- 
 theistic notion of God prevails there can be no fellow- 
 ship with God, because as we have already said there 
 is no sense of personality left on which to base fellow- 
 ship. If this doctrine of the nonpersonality of God 
 prevails the world will soon orphan itself. And then 
 what? The inborn love for communion and fellow- 
 ship will lead men to seeking through nature for qual- 
 ties of character to w'orship, as the old Egyptians 
 worshipped cunning under the form of the fox and 
 wisdom under that of the owl. They had thirty thou- 
 sand gods. In our times we shall have more if this 
 Pantheism prex'ails. 
 
 Favorable Mental Conditions. Reader, if you can 
 appreciate the being of a Creator who is our Heavenly 
 
98 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Father, whose Son came to this world to represent his 
 Father properly to mankind, then you may soon know 
 what it is to have Spiritual Rest and peace. "Thou 
 wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed 
 on Thee because he trusteth in thee." Isa. 26:3. Here 
 is perfect peace. So said the old prophet Isaiah, and 
 his saying is worth more to me than all the sayings 
 of all the modern philosophers. /Tf a man love me 
 he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, 
 and we will come unto him and take up our abode 
 with him." Jno. 14:23. "Peace I leave with you, my 
 peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give 
 1 unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let 
 it be afraid." Jno. 14:27. Jesus the personal Savior and 
 his personal Father will dwell in our hearts through 
 the fellowship of loving trust by the living presence 
 of the Divine Spirit bringing in "the peace of God 
 which passeth understanding." This loving trust — only 
 another way of saying confidence and good will — in 
 and toward Him and all His creatures is the basis of 
 perfect peace. This peace is the true basis of health 
 and the basis of all Christianity. All the finer qualities 
 of soul and mind and heart are the direct fruit of this 
 combination of loving trust. All joy, long suffering, 
 goodness, gentleness, meekness, mercy and self con- 
 trol and every noble and pure purpose flow from this 
 fountain of "faith which worketh by love." Gal. 5 :6. 
 "Against such there is no law." These all minister 
 to the cause of peace, repose and prosperity, both f(jr 
 this life and the life to come. This is Spiritual Rest. 
 This insures life here and hereafter. 
 
 When any form of rest, from any source, takes pos- 
 session of the soul there will be a degree of peace and 
 
MENTAL, CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 99 
 
 joy and prosperity. Every bodily function grows 
 stronger and more natural and regular in its workings. 
 Health has a better chance to prevail even in badly 
 diseased bodies. The food digests better, the heart 
 beats freer, the breathing is more easy and normal. 
 The basis of this condition of afifairs is confidence, 
 faith, trust in something. It is easy to see that the 
 higher and nobler, the broader and more stable the 
 basis of trust, the more perfect will be the peace and 
 rest and joy. To be completely perfect every ]V)Ssi- 
 ble soul disturbance, past, present and future must 
 be provided for. Any object or objects on which con- 
 fidence rests which falls short of covering the whole 
 field of trouble must be only an incomplete founda- 
 tion. The range of objects of faith extends from the 
 Creator of the universe all down through the diflfcrenl 
 objects in nature and works of human invention to 
 the heathen Joss. In these days every shadow of 
 human theory imaginable is cropping up here and 
 there and courting human confidence, j^romising rest 
 as the consequence of acceptance. 
 
 Adverse Mental Conditions. 
 
 The opposite states of mind, are doubt, unbeliel'. 
 distrust, fear, hate, wrath, envy, jealousy, care, worry. 
 anxiety, grief, agony, remorse, despair, "and such like"' 
 all of which are against all law and out of harnrony 
 with every phase of the kingdom which is from above. 
 You may add to these pride, ambition, covetousncss, 
 lust, and you have enough evil states of mind to ac- 
 count for about nine-tenths of all the ills that llcsh 
 is heir to. Each of these finalities of mind puts its 
 own stamp on that index of the physical and mental 
 
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 beins; — the face. Even the novice can read many nt' 
 these outward signs of an inward state. 
 
 We are frequently witnessing cases of sudden col- 
 lapse or death as the result of sudden fear or wrath 
 or the agony of disappointment. What then must 
 be the chronic effects. To pride is due a large pro- 
 portion of the deaths from consumption and pneumonia 
 — yes, to pride of dress. Corns and bunions are chiefly 
 due to the same cause. A false social pride leads 
 the way to much of the race suicide, the slaughter of 
 unborn infants, and all the direful consequences that 
 follow. Unbridled lust prepares the way for the loath- 
 some sexual diseases that are annually taking thou- 
 sands of otherwise promising men and women off 
 the stage of action. Hate and wrath and envy and 
 jealousy destroy the peace of tens of thousands and 
 lead to many cases of murder and suicide. Remorse 
 and despair end in suicide. Care, worry, and anxiety 
 keep the body on a tension until appetite is destroyed, 
 respiration hindered and indigestion and all the ills 
 which follow are well established. Sometimes the ten- 
 sion of worry in connection with pride of dress is so 
 great as to generate tumors in various parts of the 
 body. Prf)bably nine-tenths of all cases of abdominal 
 surgery in women are due to pride of dress (the 
 corset) and worry. Sometimes fear of the wrath of 
 God and remorse for sin drives some soul to insanity 
 or suicide. Need we say more? These depress the 
 life forces and minister <leath and nothing else to the 
 human race. This waste of energy is well illustrated 
 by the leaks in a mill Hume which let out so much 
 water that there is not enough left to turn the wheel 
 at the end of the flume. Are we not very near the 
 
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 truth when we ^.ay that nine-tenths of all the ills of 
 the Hesh are due to mental causes? These ailments 
 are in no sense imaginary. They are just as real as 
 any other ache or pain or physical condition due 
 to the violation of any other natural law. 
 
 Mental Remedies. 
 
 It needs no argument and hut few words to show 
 that the removal of the cause is the sovereign remedy 
 in this class of ailments. Of course in some of these 
 cases the damage done through the wrong state of 
 mind is irreparable. But in a great majority of cases 
 if peace and rest and lasting repose can be brought 
 into the mind there will be permanent and lasting 
 relief. The pressure and tension, once removed, the 
 life forces will assert their repairing power and the 
 body will be restored. Hope, joy, courage, cheerful- 
 ness and gladness are some of the potent remedies 
 to be drawn from nature's mental trust fund. Faith, 
 confidence, hope, joy, courage, rest, and peace and love, 
 were the original natural conditions in the human 
 soul before sin marred the handiwork of the Creator. 
 There is life, activity, vivacity and health where these 
 conditions have prevailed. The opposite conditions 
 of fear, doubt, remorse, anxiety, grief, despair, envy, 
 jealousy and hate can not help bearing the opposite 
 kind of fruit. There is only one kind of sorrow that 
 has life in it and that is the "Godly sorrow that 
 worketh repentance." This sorrow through forgive- 
 ness, ends in jo3\ We must repeat again the words 
 of a well known modern writer, "Nine-tenths of all 
 the diseases of humanity arc due to mental causes." 
 
 Mind cure thus becomes the most important means 
 
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 of cure known and nothing" can take its place in the 
 Materia Medica, and there is not a shadow of miracle 
 about it because it is a perfectly natural means of cure. 
 Sometimes we see sudden, almost instantaneous re- 
 lief, come either as the result of restored confidence 
 or diversion of mind. Because of the sudden return 
 to apparently healthy conditions, some have thouij;ht 
 these were cases of miraculous healing. But if grief 
 and sorrow and disappointment over bad news can 
 suddenly prostrate the individual may not joy, cour- 
 age, and cheerfulness, through confidence regained, as 
 suddenly restore the body to its normal conditions? 
 Both are purely natural results, one of violation of 
 the Law of Rest, the other of obedience to that law. 
 There can be nothing miraculous about such a case. 
 The miracle comes in only where some organic change 
 is made or some suspension of natural law appea<|> 
 
 Best Mental Remedy. 
 
 lUit the mental remedy of greatest value is Spiritual 
 Rest. He who has this Rest will have all the other 
 rest. The spiritual law will prevail in the natural 
 world. So he who has peace with God through the 
 divine fellowship will have none of these ills that arc- 
 due to mental causes becavise he has none of the 
 mental causes. Here again Christianity comes into 
 close relationship with hygiene, and labors with di- 
 vine wisdom and energy to work those life depressing 
 things out of the mind and bring in the lasting spiritual 
 fellowship and rest. This law of Spiritual Rest brings 
 the kingdom of God very near in the natural world. 
 But it does not cover the ailments that arise directly 
 from want of sufficient water to drink or from being 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 10.^ 
 
 chilled for want of harmony with the law of sunlight. 
 And violations of the law of food are not atoned for or 
 set aside by this law of rest. So the one who has 
 secured the spiritual rest will not be content till he 
 is in harmony with all the laws of his Heavenly Fa- 
 ther's kingdom. 
 
 A Complete Application of the Law of Rest. The 
 man of intelligent, well balanced mind looks forth 
 upon a world of life and beauty with surprise and 
 astonishment. As years advance he studies not only 
 the things that pertain directly to existence here, but 
 reaches out into the field of astronomy and studies 
 the mathematical laws that govern the universe. He 
 is lost in wonder at the remarkable gradations in the 
 different orders of life about him. He sees order in 
 everything. He studies the laws of higher mathe- 
 matics. He finds infinite accuracy at every advance 
 height he reaches. He is lost in the study of the al- 
 most limitless variety in this little world and he stands 
 aghast at the utterly unfathomable depths of space 
 which the highest art of man reveals through the tele- 
 scope. Such an infinite display of skill and power as 
 sun after sun and world after world, countless in num- 
 ber and unlimited in variety are revealed to his aston- 
 ished and admiring perceptions. His heart respond- 
 ing to its own innate intuitions bows in reverence 
 before the august and infinite display. "The unde- 
 vout astronomer is mad," said one who was delving 
 into the mysteries of space and discovering some of 
 the laws of that power which holds these worlds in 
 iheir allotted sphere and keeps them moving for hun- 
 dreds, yea, thousands of years, without the slightest 
 mathematical variation, either of time or space. When 
 
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 one comes to sense such infinite power and wisdom 
 he knows there must be a designer, one who laid the 
 plan, a Mind and a Personality capable of infinite 
 conceptions and infinite in executive ability. To avoid 
 this conclusion a man must deny the evidence of his 
 own better judgement. 
 
 An Illustration. 
 
 Suppose some poor Hottentot, who had never seen 
 a white man and knew naught of civilization, or some 
 pigmy of Africa, should find a watch by his pathway 
 all in good running order and ticking away as it 
 was made to do; do you think his first conclusion 
 would be as he held the strange and wonderful mechan- 
 ism in his hand, "Here is something that made itself." 
 Do you think the discovery of that watch would make 
 an evolutionist of him? Not at all. It is so far beyond 
 his ability to comprehend both in mechanism and in 
 the question of utility that he concludes, "Some being 
 who knows more than I do and more than any man 
 I know must have made that thing." His limited 
 power of reasoning from effect back to cause would 
 be honored by every civilized evolutionist on earth 
 for reaching such a conclusion. It would be heralded 
 as evidence that the dwarf could reason from .cause 
 to effect and effect to cause and might be seized upon 
 by some as evidence of the evolution of all men from 
 and through the pigmy stage of development. So the 
 civilized man in our illustration is justified in his con- 
 clusion that a being of infinite power and wisdom 
 planned and executed the workmanship of this uni- 
 verse of which we form an infinitesimal part. Paul 
 says on this point, "Because that which is known of 
 
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 God is manifested in them, for God manifested it unto 
 them. For the invisible things of him since the crea- 
 tion of the world are clearly seen, being perceived 
 through the things that are made, even his everlasting 
 power and divinity. So that they are without excuse." 
 Rom. 1 :19, 20, Am. Rev. When the unbiased man thus 
 perceives the everlasting power and divinity of a 
 Creator his most natural inquiry is, How may I know 
 more of Him? That innate longing for fellowship is 
 fanned into a flame. He would know the one who 
 gave him life in such a world, who gave him such a 
 body and such perfectly fitting surroundings. Paul 
 again says, "That they should seek God if haply they 
 might feel after him and find him though he be not 
 very far from every one of us." Acts 17:27. So the 
 true normal man is roused in the depths of his soul 
 to find the Creator of heaven and earth. There is 
 but one thing outside of nature itself which professes 
 to be a revelation of this Creator, that is the old book 
 called the Bible, which has come down from the most 
 ancient time. There is no other ancient literature, and 
 no other system of religion, which pretends to know 
 anything about a Creator. The "god of this world"" 
 has left out the Creator from all his self-inspired sys- 
 tems because he wanted to get rid of the mighty God 
 of the universe and blot him out of the conceptions oi 
 mankind. If one would know Him he must seek 
 to the Bible. To that fountain the true seeker resort> 
 to find his soul fully satisfied. He learns to fathom 
 those mysteries of existence concerning which nature 
 was silent. He learns the relations between sin an<l 
 death. The plan of salvation is opened to him and lu- 
 sees the way through death back to that life that wa.s 
 
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 bestowed on Adam in Eden. He learns what the curse 
 on the earth means and how it is to be removed, and 
 that earth once more redeemed from the result of man's 
 sin shall be restored to all its former glory and beauty 
 and like other worlds reflect the glory of the Creator 
 eternally and become the everlasting home of all the 
 saved ones of Adam's race. He will see the time 
 revealed when every creature in heaven and earth will 
 be heard saying, "Blessing and glory and honor unto 
 him that sitteth on the throne and unto the Lamb for 
 ever and ever." 
 
 He begins to grasp a sense of moral obligation. That 
 perfect law from Sinai commands his respect. He 
 begins to feel the importance of showing his apprecia- 
 tion of the life that now is by trying to learn how to 
 care for it and make it useful in the cause of suffering 
 humanity. He would learn to co-operate with his 
 Creator. He begins to speak in his heart the blessed 
 assurances of the old Book. He can say with the 
 Psalmist, "I will praise Thee for I* am fearfully and 
 wonderfully made. Marvelous are Thy works and that 
 my soul knoweth right well." He sees around him 
 men of every class of development, some base, some 
 pure and true, but all imperfect. He learns if he would 
 be forgiven and fully accepted as a child of God he 
 must love his enemies and do good to them that hate 
 him and pray for them that despitefully use him ; he 
 must forgive from the heart those who trespass against 
 him. He must enter into the experience of his 
 Heavenly Father. This blessed condition comes to 
 him through knowledge of and faith in that Son of 
 God who was "in the form of God" and "the express 
 image of His person," who came to this earth to repre- 
 
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 sent the Creator to his lost creatures and reveal fully 
 the character of God. He has taken this Prince of 
 Peace into his confidence and like Paul, "The excel- 
 lency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:8), 
 enables him "to live the life that he now lives by the 
 faith of the Son of God" (Gal. 2:20). He would come 
 into a practical realization of the experience of God in 
 dealing with sinners. God loves and forgives. So 
 must he. God pities and waits patiently and merci- 
 fully for the sinner, trying to win him back. So must 
 his child. God hates sin. So must he. Such experi- 
 ence brings him very close to the heart of the Heav- 
 enly Father. He finds that an enemy is holding usurped 
 authority over earth for just a brief time and he learns 
 how to shun the wiles and temptations of his kingdom 
 by seeking strength from his Heavenly Father and 
 Creator. 
 
 Having learned these important truths and accepted 
 them, he knows what it is to be in fellowship with 
 the Creator of the universe. His love abounds more 
 and more toward this tender, loving, ever merciful 
 God. W'hat reverential holy fear beautifies every act 
 of his life. He is loyal to the family in Heaven and 
 faithful toward the distracted family in earth. He 
 daily receives power and wisdom because of his faith 
 and love both from God's word and from the enlight- 
 enment of the Holy Spirit through the ministrations 
 of the heavenly angels, to build a character that will 
 be fit for translation to that kingdom of God which 
 will one day again take the place of the enemv's king- 
 dom on this earth. This character is formed through 
 obedience to divine law. He has reached the point 
 where spiritual rest reigns supreme in his soul. His 
 
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 fellowship with the Creator has raised him abo\ e the 
 cares and perplexities of this life. He is casting "all 
 his care upon God," as he has been invited to do. He 
 is a stranger to doubts and fears and hates and jeal- 
 ousies and envyings and remorse. Pride and ambition 
 do not shape his course, so he shuns the results in his 
 physical being of all these life depressing and life 
 destroying mental states. He has none of the physical 
 ills due to mental causes because he has none of the 
 causes. 
 
 The words of the Master are fulfilled in his case: 
 "If a man love me he will keep my words, and my 
 Father will love him and we will come unto him and 
 make our abode with him." "Christ is dwelling in 
 his heart by faith" and "The angel of the Lord en- 
 campeth round about them that reverence him and de- 
 livereth them." Through faith, love and obedience 
 the elements of character which constitute the life to 
 come are being daily wrought into and made a part 
 of- this life. This is the most interesting point in this 
 consideration of spiritual law in the natural world. 
 Through the knowledge of his works and word the 
 Creator imparts to human minds, spiritual life and 
 power so that the life of God from which men have 
 been "alienated through the ignorance that is in them 
 because of the blindness of their hearts" is actually 
 brought into the human life through these "words of 
 eternal life" and the "Spirit becomes life because of 
 righteousness." If necessary, He will, through the 
 ministration of angels, cause men to hear words, "say- 
 ing this is the way, walk in it, when they turn to the 
 right or the left." And all these ministrations of in- 
 struction impart the eternal life to dying men. So 
 
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 that what would otherwise have been death without a 
 waking becomes only a moment of sleep from which 
 the faithful one awakens to immortal life. Thus has 
 "He abolished death and brought life and immortality 
 to light through the gospel." This result is attained 
 through that Spiritual Rest and fellowship. 
 
 Another Illustration. 
 
 A faithful father sees the danger of his daughter 
 who has fallen into company with a gay deceiver. He 
 writes her words of warning in which he pours out 
 all the wealth of his affections and fatherly care. The 
 young lady remembers her father's faithfulness to- 
 ward her all through the past years and the spirit of 
 fellowship between them through that letter conveys 
 his very mind and character into her innermost soul. 
 She knows her father now as she has not known him 
 before. She listens to that spirit of saving grace 
 which inspired his communication and is rescued from 
 danger. So God, the Creator, sends spiritual life and 
 power through his word and through his works, for 
 "The heavens declare the glory of God," and the very 
 life and character of God are expressed in human lan- 
 guage and this language is taken by the faithful child 
 and changed back into character in himself through 
 loving obedience, and he becomes a partaker, yea, a 
 possessor, of the eternal life. Thus man receives life 
 and spiritual power right here and now. How God can 
 do this is no more mysterious than how he can send 
 physical power in the law of gravitation to keep all 
 the worlds of his universe in their appointed places, or 
 how he can use sunlight, air and water to impart 
 physical energy to the trees and plants to rear them- 
 
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 selves heavenward against the law of gravity and 
 resist the wind forces that the same sunlight sets in 
 operation. We have said, "Physical power in the law 
 of gravitation." But what right have we to call it 
 physical? Does it not extend outside and beyond all 
 the power of physical appreciation? Can it be meas- 
 ured or grasped by physical sense alone? It is said that 
 "He upholds all things by the word of His power." 
 Heb. 1 :3. Is not this mighty unseen, untiring crea- 
 tive, energy as much spiritual as anything the human 
 mind can conceive? Here again we may look down 
 upon the natural world from the invisible yet sub- 
 stantial heights of spiritual law. 
 
 This fellowship, this interchange of affection and 
 confidence which links man with Divinity and makes 
 him capable of loving obedience to both the moral 
 and natural law is no more mysterious than are the 
 workings of natural law all about us every day. As 
 creative power causes new buds and blossoms to spring 
 forth from the plant, so this same power emanating 
 from the Creator causes new thoughts and aspirations 
 and hopes and joys to generate in human hearts and 
 minds and causes spiritual growths that are more real 
 and lasting than the natural growths, for these are 
 perishable while those will, through the resurrection 
 be made to endure unto life eternal. 
 
 This line of thought reveals fully in outline how 
 spiritual rest through divine fellowship saves men 
 from the troubles of this life and gives them all that 
 there is here that is worth having and actually brings 
 into this life the very foundation of the life to come by 
 which the two worlds make a "good splice" and man 
 can rejoice in the truth of the "Record that God hath 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL, REMEDIES 111 
 
 given to us eternal life and this life in His Son. He 
 that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the 
 Son of God hath not life." I Jno. 5:11, 12. 
 
 God will work miracles for such a man. Indeed in 
 his case there would be but few things beside acci- 
 dents that would have to be provided for miraculously, 
 for "the angel of the Lord encampeth round about 
 them that fear him and delivereth them." Ps. 34:7. 
 
 This kind of character will have respect for natural 
 and moral law to the very minutiae, not from a stern 
 sense of duty, but from a sense of love and gratitude. 
 Was it hard work and did you have to try to love a 
 kind, faithful mother or father? "Like as a father 
 pitieth his children so Jehovah pitieth them that fear 
 (reverence) him for he knoweth our frame; he re- 
 membereth we are but dust." "Bless Jehovah, O my 
 soul, and forget not all his benefits who forgiveth all 
 thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases, who re- 
 deemeth thy life from destruction, wdio crowneth thee 
 with loving kindness and tender mercies, who satis- 
 fieth thy desire with good things so that thy youth is 
 renewed like the eagle." Ps. 103. 2-5 Am. Rev. 
 
 Instinctive obedience to natural law keeps wild 
 birds and beasts in health till old age or accident takes 
 them away. No Christian is required to do more than 
 obey. So loving, trusting obedience on man5 part will 
 bring the blessing — the lifting of the curse — for every 
 soul of man if he wills to have it so done for him. 
 No man nor woman nor any class of men nor any 
 church has any proprietary claim over these privileges. 
 The benighted heathen in Africa, or China, or Asia, or 
 the enlightened heathens in Europe and America can 
 all of them approach the Creator if they will, and be- 
 
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 come partakers of these inestimable privileges. All 
 that is necessary to make a man a heathen is to have 
 him forget the Creator; and all that it takes to ennoble 
 and elevate man is to have him come into fellowship 
 with this loving tender Heavenly Father. And the 
 way is open to all if they will. "Thus saith Jehovah, 
 In returning and rest ye shall be saved. In quietness 
 and confidence shall be your strength ; but ye would 
 not." Isa. 30:15. He announces Himself as ready and 
 waiting to help those who appreciate His aid. "I'^or 
 the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the 
 whole earth to show himself strong in the behalf of 
 them whose heart is perfect toward him." H Chron. 
 16:9. Some of the conditions on which he stands ready 
 to help are stated in Isaiah, "Thou wilt keep him in 
 perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee because 
 he trusteth in Thee." Isa. 26:3. "Is not this the fast 
 that I have chosen; to loose the bands of wickedness, 
 to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go 
 free and that ye break every yoke. Is it not to deal 
 thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor 
 that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the 
 naked thai thni cover him, and that thou hide not 
 thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light 
 break forth as the morning and thy healing shall spring 
 forth speedily and thy righteousness shall go before 
 thee and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward." 
 Tsa. 58:6-9. (Am. Revision). 
 
 The man who has sought and accepted the privileges 
 and attainments of spiritual rest, will not have dys- 
 pepsia, he will "eat in due season for strength and not 
 for drunkenness." Eccl. 10:17. He can say with the 
 Psalmist, "I will both lay me down in peace and sleep 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 113 
 
 for thou Lord only niakest me to dwell in safety." Ps. 
 4:8. If any physical cause of trouble arises the "Gifts 
 of Healings" are at his command. He will inquire dili- 
 gently of his Heavenly Father and will receive en- 
 lightenment through the gifts that God hath set in 
 the church and get an answer of peace. He will not 
 knowingly neglect to keep in right relationship to 
 those things on which life depends. He will be a 
 humble man, meek and teachable, ready to receive as 
 well as to impart. 
 
 You will not hear him bragging of his relationship 
 with the God of heaven. He will invent no great 
 swelling words or forms of expression nor will it be 
 necessary for him to appeal to occultism to make him- 
 self and his relations to the Creator clear to his fel- 
 low men, nor will he announce himself as ready to dis- 
 pense the grace of God for gold. His motto will be 
 ■'freely ye have received, freely give." Nor will he 
 imdertake to make the afflicted ones believe that he 
 can dispense the ministrations of life to them when 
 he is absent, thus attempting to put himself in the 
 place of the ministration of angels. Instead of calling 
 attention to himself he will labor to get men acquainted 
 with the Creator, through his works, and through 
 his Word, through natural law and through moral 
 law, and through the Gospel plan of Salvation as re- 
 vealed in the life of Christ and in the lives of holy 
 men of old. There will be no spirit of "self salvation" 
 in his system of theology. He knows too well the 
 weakness of humanity. He knows that no stream can 
 rise higher than its fountain so he seeks to the One 
 "with whom is the fountain of Life" and labors t<> 
 lead all others to this fountain. 
 
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 All these ideal excellencies may not at once appear 
 in the life of any imperfect human being but there will 
 be a rapid approximation toward these attainments. 
 Such characters will make up the constituency of the 
 kingdom of heaven. The census of that kingdom is 
 now being prepared and there are men and women 
 here on the stage of action today who are laboring 
 unselfishly as co-workers with the Man of Nazareth 
 and whose names are written in the Book of Life. 
 
 The man who has attained to this spiritual rest will 
 be free from the control of the adverse mental states 
 which lead to disease and death. He will have his 
 mental and moral store house full of courage and hope 
 and cheerfulness. The worry and anxiety and wear- 
 ing cares of this world will not prevail in his soul. 
 He "knows that all things work together for good to 
 them who love God, who are the called according to 
 his purpose." Rom. 8:28. This man will have not 
 much need for the doctor or for medicines. But the 
 doctor may have need" to call him to go and pray with 
 some desponding patient and speak words of comfort 
 and life to him. If there were a few true men and 
 women of this class in every community they would 
 be appreciated. Thank God there are some of this 
 class in the world. Reader, shall there not be more 
 and will not you be one of them? What nobler calling 
 can there be than ministering life to dying despondent 
 humanity? 
 
 Partial and Counterfeit Applications of the Law of 
 Rest. 
 
 In the first part of this chapter we spoke of some 
 who were making use of the Law of Rest without us- 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 115 
 
 ing the term, Law of Rest, or few, if any, expressions 
 of truth that belong to it. This may be done by in- 
 spiring confidence and hope and courage in human 
 assurances, or by any system of mental diversion, 
 through curiosity or mysticism, or by means of mirth- 
 fulness, or any thing by which the mind may be drawn 
 from its depressing moods. A journey among new 
 scenes, a sea voyage, intercourse with pleasant society, 
 will bring peace and rest through forgetfulness of the 
 troublesome, disagreeable, health destroying thoughts 
 that have stolen in. 
 
 Some modern systems of healing are using some of 
 these means of diversion and are accomplishing some 
 very wonderful cures. We say wonderful because 
 the people are so much in the dark about the Law of 
 Rest that they are ready to wonder at the simplest 
 results of its application, especially when secured in 
 an occult manner. Nearly every one of these systems 
 of cure has some marked phase of religion connected 
 with it. Now anything or any system that can gen- 
 erate confidence or faith or trust in something, no mat- 
 ter what it is, will obtain at least temporary results. 
 It is the faith that cures. So far as temporary re- 
 sults are concerned it matters little whether the mind 
 rests on the Laws of Nature or a pleasing lie, or a 
 heathen joss, the rest brings relief to ailments due to 
 mental causes by bringing in a sort of peace. This 
 enables us to perceive clearly that there must be 
 gradations in the application of the Law of Rest. 
 
 Three Great Systems of Mind Cure. 
 
 It is impossible to properly treat the Law of Rest 
 and show its workings in the world today without 
 
116 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 calling by name three great systems of Psycho- 
 Therapy. It is only done here that the truth may ap- 
 pear on this great subject of mind cure as seen in the 
 workings of the Law of Rest. The three we shall 
 name are "Christian Science," "New Thought," and 
 "The Emanuel Movement." These systems are as 
 nearly alike as three peas. One may be yellow, an- 
 other speckled, and another green, but they are all 
 peas. They are fundamentally alike though on the 
 surface so apparently different. Beside these there are 
 a host of individual healers and some lesser systems. 
 All these, or nearly all, agree on three points; first, 
 they have wandered far and wide from all knowledge 
 of a personal God; second, they do not believe in the 
 inspiration of the Bible, but third, they are all divine 
 healers ; that is, they are all doing the same kind 
 of work that Jesus of Nazareth did in Judea. This is 
 what they claim. And yet, strange to say, they are 
 entirely out of fellowship with one another and do 
 not hesitate to use other than endearing terms when 
 they mention their rivals in this field. They all have 
 practically the same attenuated, ethereal, Pantheistic 
 idea of Deity. Each of them uses such portions of the 
 Bible as please them and throw the rest aside as rub- 
 bish. All of them indulge, some more some less, in 
 great swelling words and forms of expression which 
 are called scientific. With this enough of mysticism 
 and the occult are interwoven to produce in most senti- 
 mental emotional minds the genuine enchantment of 
 ancient times. There is a sleight of mind perform- 
 ance which in the mind of the disciple converts the 
 simplest results of natural rest into marvelous cases 
 of Divine healim^f. There exists in the minds of the 
 
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 average human beings a hazy undefined notion that 
 whatever cures are produced by anything but physical 
 means must be divine. This is what makes possible 
 the enchantment of these modern systems. They use 
 mind cure and palm it off for divine healing, because 
 the people do not understand the law^s of mind cure 
 which is part of the Law of Rest. 
 
 You may have been taught from childhood to be- 
 lieve in a Creator. When you see some of the mar- 
 velous things being accomplished about you, you 
 naturally connect them with this Creator. But bear 
 in mind two things, first, that these modern systems 
 all deny the existence of a Divine personal Creator; 
 second, that there are forces working in nature with 
 which you perhaps have never become acquainted, 
 that are more than suflficient to account for all the 
 marvelous things you behold. If you were to see more 
 fully into some of the relations of the natural world 
 you would cease to marvel. The sleight of mind per- 
 formance captivates you because you do not see 
 through and understand things. If you did all the 
 mystery would vanish. Take that sleight of hand 
 trick which filled you with such wonder and astonish- 
 ment ; when you saw through it how tame it all be- 
 came. So if men knew more about the workings of 
 natural law and the workings of the "god of this 
 world," the spirit which now works in the children of 
 disobedience, all the glamour and mysticism would 
 vanish into thin air and your mind, disenchanted, 
 would be able to see in the old common place truths 
 sufficient to keep you not only out of mischievous de- 
 ceptions but to keep you busy in the way of life. If 
 you ask me why so many people are following the 
 
118 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 new systems of philosophy, my reply is, Because there 
 are so many people in this world who have nothing 
 to do but wonder. People who think more and won- 
 der less are not so liable to be led far astray. 
 
 Christian Science. 
 
 Cures by Christian Science are wrought through a 
 system of mental diversion or preoccupation. Minds 
 that have been harrassed by doubt and fear, or re- 
 morse, or anxiety, or any other depressing sentiment, 
 hear the promise of cure, are attracted by it, get busy 
 studying its occult formulas, are astonished but not 
 shocked by its wonderful system of negations ; be- 
 gin to believe its doctrines and forget their former 
 troubles and depressed moods. The body liberated 
 from its bondage goes free, life asserts itself and the 
 patient gets well, sometimes even of organic troubles 
 due to long continued mental causes. There is noth- 
 ing more divine or miraculous about this than that 
 water will quench thirst, or fire warm the body, or food 
 satisfy the bodily hunger. A state of rest comes into 
 the soul because the troubles are forgotten. Anything 
 else which will gain the attention of a disea.=ed mind 
 and win its confidence until nature can rally from 
 the injuries done will accomplish the same thing. As 
 before said, a journey through a now country, a visit 
 from a loved and trusted friend who brings a lot of 
 new thoughts and moods, the assurances of a good 
 physician, and a hundred other things will work the 
 same results. This application of natural law even to 
 the false assurance that you are a part of God should 
 never be dignified by the name Divine Science for there 
 is not a shadow of the divine about it, more than 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 11" 
 
 there is in the law of eating. Mental aliment that 
 brings mental rest is the particular phase of natural 
 law operated. If these scientists knew the limitations 
 of their power they would not excite ridicule as they 
 now often do by attempting the cure of blood poison- 
 ing, typhoid fever, smallpox, cancer and other malig- 
 nant diseases without other than mental remedies. 
 They ignore entirely the application of all other rem- 
 edies, make light of the laws of nature and still blindly 
 and courageously trample their failures under foot 
 by ascribing all the blame to the patient because he 
 did not surrender his mind fully and get in touch with 
 their metaphysical idea of God. 
 
 An Anecdote. 
 
 The limitations of Christian Science are well illus- 
 trated by the story of a Christian Science mother and 
 her little boy who were going through a pasture lot 
 where were some cattle. The bull, seeing little 
 Johnnie's red jacket, began to paw and bellow and 
 come toward them. Johnnie showed great signs of fear 
 and began to hinder progress by pulling at his mother's 
 dress. The mother said: "Johnnie, just remember 
 that your mother is a Christian Science woman and 
 that you are a little Christian Science man, that bull 
 won't hurt us." Johnnie said, very excitedly : "Yes, 
 mamma, I know you're Christian Science and I know 
 I'm Christian Science, but I don't believe that bull's 
 found it out yet." There are a lot of tape worms 
 and body parasites beside some incurable diseases 
 that have not yet found out the power of Christian 
 Science, and never will. 
 
 P)Ut the Christian Scientist can trulv sav, "TIumo- 
 
120 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 fore, having by denial, freed myself from all sense of 
 sin, and all responsibility for it and all fear of a future 
 judgment, I have peace with myself through Christian 
 Science." And this peace brings cure for a lot of 
 trouble due to fear and worry, but will not in any 
 way atone for the violations of the laws of sunlight, 
 air, water, food, or clothing. And they are not in- 
 sensible to bee stings and never will be till physically 
 dead. ' 
 
 Are these people sincere? Most assuredly they 
 are. It is not men's motives we are dealing with 
 but the applications of the Law of Rest. The fascina- 
 tion of the mysterious, and the undefined idea that 
 whatever is accomplished by other than visible means 
 must be from the Divine, prevails everywhere and 
 these people are no different from others. The re- 
 sult is that whatever is accomplished is taken as evi- 
 dence, that every Christian Science doctrine is true, 
 because they suppose that the cures grow out of the 
 doctrine instead of resulting from the state of rest 
 and temporary peace that has been brought into the 
 soul by this system of mental diversion. Other faiths 
 and doctrines could accomplish the same results if 
 their adherents would awaken expectation and stimu- 
 late cheerfulness and courage and hope by putting 
 more assurance into their work. Indeed this same 
 kind of work has been going on in a quiet unob- 
 trusive way during at least the last fifty years. Physi- 
 cians have used it, and ministers have used it, and 
 priests have used it, and the friends of the sick have 
 used it, and many a soul has been saved from pre- 
 mature death just by the hope and cheer that has 
 come from getting the thoughts diverted from the 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 121 
 
 depressing topics that had pulled it down. But there 
 has been no flourish of trumpets over these cases. 
 They were such natural results that no one of repute 
 has thought to make himself famous by proclaiming 
 them as divine, and that he had the exclusive agency 
 for dispensing such healing power. Take away the 
 fascination of the mysterious sleight of mind perform- 
 ance which converts the results of the application of the 
 natural Law of Rest into Divine Healing and the 
 soul of the Christian Science system has departed. 
 There is enough of novelty and mystery in the con- 
 fusion of sentiments in this amplified system of nega- 
 tions to occupy almost any human mind for a long 
 time. Minds that like something vapory and etherial 
 will find abundant food for wonderment, while the 
 matter of fact people who are led chiefly by reason 
 and judgment will find it much harder to accept this 
 philosophy than to believe the "unexplained" truth as 
 found in the old Bible. A man may have this system 
 inculcated fully into his life and yet know nothing 
 of that spiritual rest that comes from full spiritual 
 fellowship with the personal Creator. A man may 
 talk "Christ" and "truth" and "love" and "life" and 
 the "allness of God" and heal the sick and yet not be 
 acquainted with that personal Savior who now sits 
 at the right hand of his personal Father in the Heav- 
 enly Sanctuary. Heb. 8:1,2. A man may trust in all 
 the mere spiritual forces that the human mind can 
 conceive, apart from a personal God, and yet be a 
 worshipper of Beelzebub. Trusting in divine power 
 and so-called "truth" apart from a personal knowl- 
 edge of the Creator will save no man. There is but 
 one thing that will do awav with "Old Beliefs" and 
 
122 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 "Errors of IvI'^rtal Mind" for the Christian Scientist, 
 or with sin and all its consequences for other people; 
 but a personal loving acquaintance with the Creator 
 and His Son Jesus. Trying to find lasting permanent 
 rest in the god of Modern Metaphysics is like trying to 
 build 3^our house on a fogbank or climb an imaginary 
 rope ladder to the moon. You can imagine and dream 
 about it until your distressed mind and heart have be- 
 come rested from the wretchedness of former troubles 
 and your body has in a measure risen above. the de- 
 pressions of mental causes, but you will waken to 
 find that self salvation is a failure and you still need 
 the comfort and strength of a real Heavenly Father. 
 There can be nothing Divine about a system that has 
 no Divine personal being connected with it. Even di- 
 vine truth, apart from the ministrations of its Author 
 can impart nothing divine to any human character or 
 any human system. It will take something more than 
 spiritualistic etherealism, something more than a Pan- 
 theistic basis to build a foundation for Divine spiritual 
 rest. The God of Christian Science is an ethereal, 
 mystical creation of the human imagination inspired 
 by the "god of this w^orld." 
 
 An Inspiration. 
 
 4 
 
 There is an inspiration in Christian Science, but it 
 cannot be the inspiration that is in the Bible because 
 most of its explanations of that book are either open 
 flat denials or complete substitutions, so that the old 
 book is completely set aside. How can the same 
 spirit be in both? Pretending to be a new light, it 
 i:)linds the minds of its disciples to the real light of the 
 world and makes its own darkness appear to be light 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 123 
 
 by holding- its own mystical kaleidoscope before their 
 eyes. The changes come so rapidly that the mind is 
 dazzled with a new mixture of coloring. The vision 
 which perhaps did not want to bear the clear light of 
 heaven is pleased with the new color changes and 
 combinations and so affected by them that it seldom 
 or never again can bear the clear light. 
 
 The writer predicts a change in the doctrines of 
 Christian Science, not long hence. They will adopt 
 the laws of nature as a part of their system. They 
 will advocate a right relationship to sunlight, air, 
 water, food, clothing and exercise. These, like the 
 natural Law of Rest, will yet be woven into their 
 system of Therapeutics, for the system cannot long 
 survive without some tangible basis, when once fully 
 exposed to the light. 
 
 New Thought. 
 
 What has been said of the fundamental principles 
 of Christian Science might also be said of this philoso- 
 phy. It has a sort of evolutionary idea of God. \\)- 
 parently about all the God there is, is the human 
 mind or soul and its better sentiments and aspirations. 
 It is an ethereal idea of God that is very hard to gras]). 
 This philosophy has started out to teach men antl 
 women how to save themselves and keep themselves 
 happy. 
 
 It employs a lot of good Hygienic sense at some 
 points, making quite good provisions for physical 
 health. It deals with mankind in its relations to n:i 
 ture and one another. The Creator is fully set aside. 
 The effect of their work would be to till the world 
 with a happy lot of orphans. 
 
124 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 New Thought would haye us believe that mind 
 creates the body. If this were true then the girl 
 with a lop ear or one who wanted a dimple, or the 
 young man with a pug nose would onl}^ have to con- 
 centrate the mind on the part to be changed and earn- 
 estly "will" that the change be made and their heart's 
 desire would be granted ; and he who wanted to add 
 one cubit to his stature could "by taking thought" 
 easily accomplish the task. Many cures are claimed 
 by this cult, all of which can be traced directly to the 
 Law of Rest. The correction of ordinary eye troubles 
 is one of their fortes. Take the one who is worn and 
 worried and really nervously sick and compelled to 
 wear glasses. When the worry is left out and the 
 mind comes to a state of rest through the assurance 
 of these healers, the health improves, the nervous sys- 
 tem becomes stronger and is able to overcome without 
 difficulty any ordinary defect in the cornea or lens and 
 keep it up for years. The writer has known a man 
 in ordinary health to overcome four diopeters of cor- 
 neal astigmatism till he was fifty years old, without 
 any apparent effect on his health, while one half a 
 diopeter of the same trouble in a feeble, nervous pa- 
 tient would have made her thoroughly sick. There is 
 nothing marvelous to the trained optician in such cases. 
 A strong nervous system controls and overcomes 
 bodily imperfections. The mind does not create any 
 thing bnt conditions of rest; and rest works the relief 
 through increased power to control. 
 
 Like the Christian Scientist the New Thought dis- 
 ciple knows nothing of the fellowship with the Creator, 
 because he denies the existence of a personal God. 
 They have a flippant way of casting aside everything 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 12,- 
 
 in the Bible that does not suit them and yet they 
 talk about Christ as "the Master." This is just the 
 philosophy for those who despise the Creator, hate 
 the moral restraints of the Bible, and are out of all 
 harmony with the doctrines of the old theology. 
 
 It is one thing to talk or write eloquently of being 
 '"in tune with the infinite" power of the universe, and 
 quite another thing to know and be in harmony with 
 the Creator. To enjoy all the works of God and feel 
 at home in this world does not make one a child of 
 God. We may, by denial, forget Him, but that does 
 not dethrone Him. We may cast aside his moral 
 law, but that does not destroy our obligations. And 
 we may be in just this attitude toward Him and yet 
 feel such a confidence in ourselves and in our natural 
 surroundings as to bring a sort of peace in the soul 
 and we as a result rise superior to most of those ills 
 which are due to mental causes, and in a measure be 
 "in tune with the infinite" in nature. 
 
 They have a method very similar to Christian Scien- 
 tists in disposing of sin, guilt and responsibility. Chris- 
 tian Science denies the existence of these things. New- 
 Thought says that "sin is only undeveloped good." 
 This rolls a weigh* of burden from the conscience- 
 smitten soul. So all the atonement you need you 
 can make for yourself as in Christian Science. And 
 as in the ancient systems of philosophy, you need no 
 Creator.' Your system of mind creation and self sal- 
 vation is all-sufficient for you. You do not need for- 
 giveness; you will have nothing to answer for in the 
 day of judgment for there will be no judgment. And 
 yet these people would have you think that they art- 
 doing the same identical work done by Jesus of Na/ 
 
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 areth in Old Judea. It is only ignorance of the Scrip- 
 tures, or a desire for an easier way, or a heart out of 
 harmony with Divine restraints that can make this 
 philosophy desirable. 
 
 They tell us "no faith is required." "You do not 
 have to believe anything," and yet I observe that its 
 advocates labor with might and main to get the people 
 to believe all that they tell them. 
 
 This system is also a system of negation and is 
 quite assuring to many who have gotten entirely out 
 of touch with the theology of our times, especially 
 those who have sprung from the old following of 
 Spiritism. One who believes this philosophy is en- 
 abled to cease his worrying and fretting and live a life 
 of indifference to the future. This assurance and these 
 mental changes do bring physical relief for a host 
 of ills. The Law of Rest does its work for these 
 philosophers just the same as for others just because 
 it is a law of nature and if it is obeyed the results are 
 sure. What if they do not accomplish half they set 
 out to? As in the case of Christian Science, the people 
 believe that the results they see prove the truth of the 
 philosophy. They secure a following and keep men 
 from knowing the Creator. There'is an inspiration in 
 these systems that is hard for one unacquainted with 
 the word of the Creator to understand. He who knows 
 the Bible and is acquainted with the God of heaven 
 can see the contrast between it and the inspiration of 
 that Word. 
 
 New Thought teachers are strong advocates of the 
 Laws of Life in dietetic and other lines of reform. 
 This helps them greatly in the Law of Rest, as tem- 
 perance and vegetarianism are a great aid in working 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL, REMEDIES J27 
 
 nervous disturbances out of the body. But their claim 
 that there is no reason why men should not now 
 live to be a thousand years old will never recommend 
 their philosophy very highly to people of cool, clear 
 minds. They ignore entirely the fact that the curse 
 pronounced for sin put death into the very things on 
 which life depends. 
 
 One cannot help thinking that this system of philos- 
 ophy, like the others, is the result of an effort to find 
 something that would please the human mind rather 
 than an effort to bring the human mind to appreciate 
 and believe those truths which have stood the test 
 of ages. If their system does bring a sort of rest to 
 those who like it, and this rest in connection with the 
 Laws of Life brings a fair degree of health, it is no 
 evidence that there is a true foundation to the sys- 
 tem. It only proves again what rest will do, no mat- 
 ter how it is obtained. Stolen rest, like stolen money, 
 will pass current almost anywhere and purchase any- 
 thing as well as money truly earned. And counterfeit 
 money will buy good things wherever and as long as 
 it will pass. 
 
 The Emanuel Movement. 
 
 The Emanuel Movement is using suggestion and 
 hypnotism in addition to the use of visible means 
 through application of natural laws and the use of 
 medicine. It does not openly claim to be divine, but 
 does hold that it is the same kind of healing as the 
 Master practiced while here among men, hence the 
 people cannot help but regard it as a kind of Divine 
 Healing. No visible means is employed in many cases, 
 
128 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 hence it must he (li\ ine. This is the natural conclu- 
 sion. 
 
 Suggestion. 
 
 We cannot regard this as anything new, for sugges- 
 tion is as old as the Bible, which is full of it. Every 
 hopeful promise and every statement, designed to 
 encourage and strengthen frail humanity, is sugges- 
 tion pure and unadulterated. The Scripture promises 
 are ideal forms of suggestive expression. Was ever 
 anything more comforting than the words of Jesus, 
 "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, 
 and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you 
 and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: 
 and ye shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is 
 easy and my burden is light." Matt. 11:28. This 
 suggestion is from the Creator himself. "For by him 
 (Christ) were all things created that are in heaven and 
 that are in earth, visible and invisible." Col. 1 :16. 
 Here is rest, unqualified rest ; spiritual rest, mental 
 rest, natural rest, physical rest. Can mortal man im- 
 prove upon this? Can he duplicate it? He cannot pre- 
 sent any promise of more than finite worth while this 
 is infinite. True suggestion must be drawn from the 
 Bible. There is no other fountain. Men may think 
 they have got something new, but if it is true you 
 will find it among the Creator's suggestions. Here 
 is another : "The God nf Jacob is thy refuge ; under- 
 neath are the everlasting arms." Deut. 33:27. You 
 can scarcely turn a page of this old book, if you arc 
 looking for something cheerful and hopeful, without 
 finding it. Here in its pages is the encyclopedia of 
 all suggestion. If men invent anything new it must 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL R^EDIES 129 
 
 be some new conception of God and His truth. They 
 must have a new God and a new doctrine. Then they 
 may make apphcation of the old suggestions to bolster 
 up the new doctrine. The helpless suffering one is 
 almost sure to think that the healing comes from the 
 doctrine connected with it, and so the doctrine must 
 be good whatever its origin. The truth is not yet 
 fully grasped that all healing comes from Creative 
 power, working thru the Law of Rest, or thru the 
 other laws of health, or thru the law of miracles. 
 The Psalmist addressing the Creator says: "For with 
 Thee is the fountain of Life. In Thy light shall we 
 see light." Ps. 36:9. 
 
 Pantheism Reinstated. — The worst feature of the 
 Emanuel Movement is the bringing into their theology 
 of the old Pantheistic idea of God, and then trying to 
 make the suggestions of the Bible work in connecting 
 human minds with this newly adopted Christian ( ?) 
 God. This may not appear on the surface, but he who 
 reads the writings of Dr. Worcester, the founder of 
 this system, will find the old unadulterated doctrines 
 of Pantheistic Buddhism expressed in a little more 
 modern terms. His book, "The Living Word," makes 
 this plain. And he himself states that "In reality the 
 argument I am pursuing is only a new application of 
 the argument of evolution." He also sets forth the 
 idea that all the stars and planets are living beings 
 with souls, drawing very near to the Japanese Shinto 
 idea that the trees and rocks and brooks and all the 
 objects in nature are possessed of living souls. 
 
 The most of the people who are helped by sug- 
 gestions in the hands of Pantheistic healers will be- 
 come Pantheists. This ethereal idea of Deitv is not at 
 
130 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 once foisted upon devout Christian people who come 
 for healing nor is it called Pantheism when it is opened 
 before them. The efforts to teach the idea among 
 Christian people is comparatively recent and the 
 methods of getting at the final conclusion that the 
 "soul." or manifestation of all "life" in all nature con- 
 stitutes God, are various. 
 
 The Sub- Conscious Mind. 
 
 There is enough of mysticism in the new forms of 
 expression to make it somewhat enchanting. We hear 
 much of the "Sub-attentive ]\Iind," "The Subliminal 
 Consciousness," "Sub-consciousness" and the "Sub- 
 conscious mind," all of which prevails in dreams and 
 under the hypnotic influence. The "subconscious" 
 mind is simply the human mind with the will de- 
 throned or held in abeyance, either by natural or by 
 artificial conditions. The mind becomes the sport of 
 circumstances while not under control of its own moni- 
 tor, the will. And this condition of mind is now being 
 made the subject of lengthy "research" and learned 
 "dissertation" with great swelling words and expres- 
 sions which few if any understand. The writer cannot 
 see the good of dressing up ideas in Fuch great flowing 
 robes, unless like the patent medicine man, they are 
 aiming to arouse in the common mind a sort of mud- 
 dled fascination and thus make it easier to captivate 
 the will by confusing the judgment. 
 
 As in all the other kinds of mental healing the object 
 of all suggestion is to bring in a state of mental hope- 
 fulness, courage and confidence, to bring rest and 
 peace into the vital domain. And it is to the Great 
 Law of Rest that the Emanuel Movement owes nearly 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 131 
 
 all of its cures. From what the writer has heard 
 from the lips of one of the chief advocates of this 
 movement (Dr. Shields), one great purpose is to exalt 
 hypnotism and hypnotic suggestion to a position of 
 honor in the working of the Gospel of Christ. 
 
 Hypnotism is a procedure where in response to sug- 
 gestions from the operator the subject yields up his 
 will fully to the other man. This yielding is by far 
 the principal part of the transaction. It is by no 
 means a forceful conquest of one mind over another. 
 There must be a disposition to yield or it must be 
 developed before the hypnotist can bring his subject 
 under control. There is a power invoked in this pro- 
 cess that no hypnotist seems to understand. When 
 carried to its most profound results there comes in a 
 plainly supernatural manifestation. When the human 
 body, in a horizontal position, supported only at the 
 head and feet, is made to sustain a thousand-pound 
 weight without apparent after injury, there is a mani- 
 festation of power contrary to, and above all natural 
 processes. This profound state of unconsciousness 
 may be sustained for several days. No true scientist 
 dares to risk his reputation by pronouncing this a 
 simply natural process and result. I repeat, the hyp- 
 notist does not comprehend the power that manifests 
 itself in response to his action. Leaving out of con- 
 sideration this profound and sometimes prolonged 
 manifestation, let us examine that condition in 
 which the patient still has the power of mo- 
 tion, but is under control of the other will. When 
 the Creator asks man to yield liis will to him, he leaves 
 the man in full possession of his self control and by 
 the new relationship greatly nuiltiplies his responsi- 
 
132 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 l)ility. The whole mind and body and character are 
 strengthened and invigorated. And if this relation- 
 ship of yielding is sustained by the man, his power of 
 self control continues to increase until his will is able 
 to bring every faculty of mind and "'thought into 
 captivity to the obedience of Christ." II Cor. 10:5. 
 
 Not thus, by any means, does the hypnotic pro- 
 cedure result. Self-control and responsibility are gone 
 instantly, and the person is under complete control, 
 it may be, of an evil mind. The body with all its 
 powers becomes the sport of another mind. If this 
 process is often repeated the subject loses strength of 
 mind and character and becomes a mere creature of 
 circumstances. Hypnotism cannot be from the 
 Creator. A power producing opposite results must 
 be an opposing power. "An enemy hath done this." 
 Those who are operating with hypnotism do not com- 
 prehend the power they are dealing with. The truly 
 sensible m.an or woman does not need to be warned 
 to shun everything that has the shadow of appearance 
 of robbing people of self control and responsibility. 
 When the Emanuel Movement labors to exalt hypnot- 
 ism to a position of honor in the workings of the gos- 
 pel of Christ, putting it on a level with or above the 
 miracle working in Judea, they are taking the side of 
 the ■ arch enemy of God and are doing an untold 
 amount of injury to those who do not know the char- 
 acter of hypnotism. It is one of the best evidences 
 that they themselves have forgotten the Creator and 
 know little of fellowship with him or his Son. Why 
 not lead people to the fountain of truth and light, the 
 throne of the universe, instead of the brackish pois- 
 oned streams of earth? Su])pose "good men" do use 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL, REMEDIES 133 
 
 hypnotism, does that sanctify it? God and Christ 
 never used it, neither did any holy man of old. Bad 
 men and devils, may and do use it. The circumstances 
 of Eden show a manifest case of hypnotic suggestion. 
 When professed Christian healers adopt hypnotism it 
 is plain that something has come in to eclipse the 
 divine light. The writer has known several men who 
 practiced hypnotism in their earlier years. When 
 they were converted to Christ they cast it aside of 
 their own accord as one of the works of darkness. 
 What if old mental and physical habits are cured by 
 hypnotic workings ; and they really do such cures : 
 this is no valid excuse for the use of hypnotism in 
 any case, for the same results may be and are being 
 accomplished for the slaves of habit without robbinj.; 
 them of self-control and responsibility. In Christian 
 work we call it conversion. Hypnotism enables man 
 to exalt himself instead of exalting God, the might} 
 healer. It brings in a sort of rest and power into the 
 soul thru the will power of another; a sort of spurious 
 conversion, which may change the habits of life. It 
 may not always be as easy to induce a man to trust 
 in God and give his heart to him, as to get him to yield 
 his mind and will to another man, but the results are 
 much more satisfactory and permanent. It is possible 
 also for evil men to accomplish through this means 
 purposes otherwise unattainable, and therefore it be- 
 comes one of the most dangerous abuses of the Law 
 of Rest with which we have to deal. 
 
 The subconscious mind, we repeat, is nothing more 
 than the human mind and all its faculties, with the 
 will dethroned. It is a well-known fact that man has 
 a vital nervous svstem, which works all the time inde- 
 
134 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AKD HEALTH 
 
 pendent of the will excepting as the will thru the dia- 
 phragm may step in and accelerate the functions of the 
 vital organs. The evolutionary theory of a "subcon- 
 scious mind" controlling the functions of the body has 
 been invented to explain and justify hypnotism, which 
 brings about a state of mind and body in which all the 
 voluntary actions of the body are under the control 
 of another will. 
 
 Occult Forces. 
 
 Some of these modern philosophers of an ancient 
 system have a peculiar way of accounting for what 
 true science calls the results of heredity and for the 
 fatal action of poisons. This statement is true of 
 Christian Scientists. They tell us that there is an 
 occult force operating on the race in spite of "love" 
 and "truth," and the influence of their philosophy, 
 which causes death. It is not the poison, but the con- 
 sensus of adverse mental opinion that kills. They 
 claim the existence of occult forces and explain the 
 adverse phenomena of life thru them instead of thru 
 the violations of natural and moral law. We believe 
 also in an occult power, yes, in an occult being. And 
 thru his power, we can account for all the foolish 
 vagaries of science falsely so-called, and for the fanat- 
 ical fascinations of these philosophies. The Old Book- 
 says : "In whom the god of this world hath blinded 
 the minds of them that believe not." The god of this 
 world wc are also informed, "has transformed himself 
 into an angel of light." Light is truth. "The god of 
 this world" is mixing up daikness and glossing it ov^er 
 with light. He knows how to use the forces in nature, 
 especially the I^aw of Rest, and these modern ])hilnso- 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 135 
 
 phers, while denying his existence, invent other occult 
 forces to account for the phenomena of natural law. 
 It is this god of this world who is working the mysti- 
 cisms, fascinations and incantations of the various 
 phases of these Ancient-Modern systems of philosophy. 
 The animus that exists in the apostles of these systems 
 against the doctrine of a personal Creator is sufficient 
 evidence that "an enemy hath done this." The mind 
 that is under-working all these systems gives evidence 
 of being the mind of another, instead of the "Mind of 
 Christ." 
 
 Are These Philosophies Christian? 
 
 Two of the three profess to be. The other does mil, 
 but would rather have people think that Christ was 
 tr\-ing to imitate their system, as it then existed among 
 heathen philosophers. This is true of New Thought. 
 Ft matters not how much men profess respect for 
 Chri.'^t and the gospel, if they reject the Bible or an}' 
 portion of it, all of which he sanctioned, they reject 
 him. If Christ was right, if he was a noble and pure 
 character, then he was what he claimed to be — the 
 Son of God — and the writings of Moses and the proph- 
 ets and of those who were taught by him are true. 
 
 It was "the Spirit of Christ in the prophets which 
 testified before hand the sufferings of Christ aud the 
 glory which should follow." If Christ was "Truth" 
 then his teaching and miracle working were not in- 
 spired and accomplished by any spirit of jui^gling with 
 Natural Law thru any sleight-of-mind performance by 
 means of ancient occultism. Let all these modern 
 I)hilc)Sophers throw off the mask and their work amons^ 
 Christian people is ended. 
 
136 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 We cannot deny that there is an inspiration in all 
 these systems, but is it the same inspiration that moved 
 the holy men of old? If this is the same inspiration 
 today \vill it deny the teachings or any portion of the 
 word which came thru its workings two thousand 
 years ago? Truth cannot deny itself. Reader, you 
 do not have to accept everything as truth just be- 
 cause you cannot understand it, neither because a 
 modern philosopher brings about a restoration of the 
 sick to health are we to conclude that all his theories 
 and doctrines are true. Again we say anybody can 
 juggle with the Law of Rest. The logic of these 
 philosophies so far as the truth is concerned is accord- 
 ing to the mental viewpoint, either that these works 
 wrought in our days are paramount with the works of 
 Christ or else that the works of Christ being wrought 
 by the same means now used are no more miraculous 
 and hence on a level with these which we see, and 
 further that the work accomplished, as already noted, 
 proves the truth of the philosophy in all its particulars. 
 This logic in its ultimate analysis places modern man 
 on a level with all the Gods that ever existed and 
 really enthrones man as the God of this world, be- 
 cause, according to them, he is now doing equal or 
 greater works than ever were done before. Thus the 
 Creator of the universe is trampled underneath the 
 mire of human self-conceit. Man is even proclaimed 
 to be God by some and because new and wonderful 
 results are reached thru his manipulations of the Law 
 of Rest, which but few have understood, some are 
 readv to believe it. 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 137 
 
 The Real Christian Hope. 
 
 It is true that so far as immediate physical results 
 are concerned it does not make such a vast difference 
 what the confidence finds to rest upon. If present 
 troubles are provided for one may be at rest for a 
 while unmindful of the future. But there comes a 
 time when the realities of this life vanish from the 
 human vision and the grasp loosens on all that is tan- 
 gible and solid in existence. Then the soul needs the 
 enduring help that comes from fellowship with the 
 eternal God. It costs no more to have this Spiritual 
 Rest in the Creator and his promises of a new life be- 
 yond the shores of time^ than to have the hope that 
 flickers out with the dying embers of one's last day, 
 or faintly glimmers into the abyss and tries to find 
 rest in the ethereal nothingness of enchanting mysti- 
 cism. May the God of all grace deliver you and me, 
 reader, from such a fate. He who created can recreate. 
 He who provides for this life can and will provide for 
 us the eternal lifenf we rest in Him, for he has prom- 
 ised to do it. God pity the self-made orphans. 
 One day their refuge will be swept away. What a 
 comfort then to know that the Heavenly Father will 
 provide a home with all the comforts the human heart 
 can desire. The real Christian hope has a most won- 
 derful soothing healing power in it. It provides a rest 
 for which there is no substitute. It contains "the 
 promise of the life that now is and of that which is 
 to come." 1 Tim. 4:8. There is true hygiene in ii, 
 for it enables one to escape all the ills that come from 
 mental causes. While it calls for self-denial and sac- 
 rifice and obedience to both moral and natural law, it 
 provides compensation and satisfaction in that fellow- 
 
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138 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 ship which is without disappointments, and that hope 
 which is free from all doubts and fears, and that "per- 
 fect" peace of God which passeth all understanding, 
 and that repose that is as quiet, cahii and undisturbed 
 as the foundations of the Eternal Throne. 
 
 The joyful quietness that pervades such a soul is in 
 wide contrast to that forced rest which man tries to 
 impose on himself thru these modern systems of self- 
 salvation. 
 
 The God Within. 
 
 A poor suffering soul was asked how she was get- 
 ting along a few days after she had fallen into the 
 meshes of one of these philosophies. "Oh! I am all 
 right now. The God that is within me is saving me." 
 This doctrine of an undying essence or power within, 
 which used to be called the soul, makes necessary a 
 new definition of death which enables these evolu- 
 tionists, in their theories of life, to be completely rid 
 of all creative power as revealed in the promise of the 
 resurrection of the dead. Those supremely comfort- 
 ing assurances of life thru Jesus Christ mean nothing 
 to these schools of philosophy. "For ye are dead and 
 your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who 
 is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear \\ith 
 Him in glory." Col. 2>:2>. "For our conversation is 
 in heaven from whence also we look for the Savior, 
 the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body 
 that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, 
 according to the working whereby He is able to sub- 
 due all things unto Himself." Phil. 3:20. This tho 
 coming from Paul, a man of the broadest experience of 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 139 
 
 any man in the Christian age, is considered mere rub- 
 l)is'h. 
 
 The Modern Theory. 
 
 Tlie modern thcor\-, in brief, is that life as we be- 
 hold it, did not come from creation, is not dependent 
 on the laws of life here and needs no act of creative 
 power to make it continnons in the life to come, really 
 that "Life" is an eternal principle or force or essence 
 which has brought into existence all things whicli 
 we see. Evolution does not account for the mathe- 
 matical Laws of Gravitation. It cannot marshal a 
 host of smaller laws from the embryonic stage uj), 
 slowly developing into full-fledged Laws of Gravita- 
 tion, starting new planetary systems into operation. 
 Nor can it explain the power that emanates from the 
 sun and show examples of other inert bodies of matter 
 slowdy developing sun power thru evolution. By tak- 
 ing advantage of the uniform gradations in the works 
 of creation here on earth and reasoning from them a 
 show of science is produced which, to those who accept 
 it, eliminates the Creator from this world and thru 
 the invention of "the God within," man does not need 
 any help for the future. These theories so thoroughly 
 put the Creator away from humanity that the old 
 Book, which defines sin and determines human re- 
 sponsibility, passes into oblivion, and with it goes all 
 law and all condemnation for sin and all sense of 
 future responsibility. This takes a fearful load off 
 the mind of those who are stubborn sinners and lays 
 the foundation for a kind of rest anrl peace which is 
 built on these assumjitions by going back again to 
 the r)ld Book and appropriating to those systems all 
 
U(i ESSENTIALS TO UFK AND HEALTH 
 
 the cheerful, happy, blessed, hopeful promises that are 
 made to the faithful obedient child of God. Nothing- 
 could be more pleasing to unregenerate human nature 
 than such a system of assurances with all the condi- 
 tions and obligations eliminated. The Scripture prom- 
 ises and assurances are not always used in Scripture 
 language. Versatile man takes the thoughts and trans- 
 forms them into human sayings which work charm- 
 ingly on human nature, producing rest and peace. 
 And then because they get relief they think they have 
 discovered some new doctrine that has in it Divine 
 power to heal. As if there was anything in man's 
 mental conception of an ethereal Deity and of the 
 nothingness of material things ; as if, we say, there was 
 anything intrinsic in such conceptions to heal the sick. 
 It does nothing onl}' for those that believe. The tem- 
 porary cure lies in the believing, not in the doctrine. If 
 they would believe the truth it would do them lasting 
 good, for then there never could come that disappoint- 
 ment which awaits those who are deceived. 
 
 The Weakness of Modern Man. 
 
 Mankind, especially women, arc superstitious. They 
 love to wonder, to marvel, to be puzzled, mystified, be- 
 witched, enchanted, befogged, humbugged — that is, 
 sentimental humanity. Watch how they run after 
 the wizard and juggler, and see how they gap and 
 wonder at his sleight-of-hand tricks. And now when 
 these modern sleight-of-mind performances begin, see 
 how they flock again to have their sentimental curios- 
 ity satiated. The writer once saw five hundred people 
 vote almost solidly that Alexander Dowie was a 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDfES 141 
 
 prophet of God. But there came a day of revelation 
 to most of them. 
 
 Ancient and Modern Alike. 
 
 W hen ihc men of ancient time had forgotten the 
 Creator they went after gods of wood and stone. Paul 
 says of these: "Because that when they knew God 
 they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, 
 but became vain in their imaginations and their fool- 
 ish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be 
 wise they became fools and changed the glory of the 
 uncorruptible God into an image made like to corrupt- 
 ible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creep- 
 ing things." Rom. 1 : 21-23. And what follows shows 
 where much of the moral corruption came from. How 
 much of this applies to the men who have changed 
 the glory of the uncorruptible God into a mere airy 
 sentiment, a mere essential nothingness, ascribing 
 power to it, and worshipping it if such a thing were 
 . possible; we leave the reader to decide. At the very 
 most their god can be no more than the forces the 
 Creator uses in holding together the material world, 
 and the sentiments of love and affection which He 
 created to hold human society together. The ancient 
 systems might be called material idolatry, while the 
 modern could well be dignified by the term ethereal 
 idolatry. 
 
 Rising Above Trouble. 
 
 W Irh ■"ihe peace of God that passeth all understand- 
 ing" takes possession of the soul there will be rejoicing 
 in the midst of sorrow and gladness even when bowed 
 with grief. The bitterest cup will be sweet and the 
 
142 ESSENTIALS TO MFE AND HEALTH 
 
 heaviest burden light. Pain will be pleasure and dis- 
 appointment satisfaction. "As for God His way is 
 perfect." INIan's ways will be perfect when he knows 
 God. "Acquaint now thyself with God and be at 
 peace, thereby good shall come unto thee." There is 
 no use denying the existence of sin and trouble to 
 get rid of it. The bearing of it and rising above it 
 thru fellowship with the Creator constitute the grand- 
 est, most elevating discipline that can be experienced 
 in the human soul. Paul says: "Our light affliction 
 which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more 
 exceeding and eternal weight of glory ;" "And we know 
 that all things work together for good to them that 
 love God, who are the called according to His pur- 
 pose." Rom. 8:28. He who is acquainted with the 
 Father and with His Son Jesus Christ, will have no 
 need for these modern systems. He has drunk from 
 life's pure fountain and the brackish streams of earth 
 do not allure him. His thirst has been quenched from 
 the water of life. He has secured the true rest and 
 perfect peace. 
 
 Counterfeits and the Genuine. 
 
 V 
 
 These counterfeiters, while denying the Creator, 
 have to appropriate, or steal a little partial rest and 
 peace by a false application of His great Law of Rest, 
 else their promissory notes would be of no value. 
 None of these systems have any legitimate right what- 
 ever to the Rest which comes from being in even par- 
 tial harmony with Natural Law, because they deny the 
 existence of the Creator, who made these laws and 
 who is the real author of all rest and peace. Rest 
 comes not from the ethereal pantheistic god, which is 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 143 
 
 as much a creation of the human mind as were the 
 man-made gods of ancient Greece and Rome. The 
 abuse of natural law does not give any one title to 
 even the partial results. The child of God has ob- 
 tained his perfect peace thru fellowship with his 
 Heavenly Father. He has the genuine bank notes of 
 heaven. The Creator will not set aside a Law of 
 Nature or of Grace because it is abused. But He 
 will clothe with power those men and women who 
 thru self-denial and self-surrender come into close rela- 
 tionships with him thru obedience to His laws. Be- 
 cause men have not secured this fellowship with God 
 as was their privilege, is not a good reason why they 
 should not soon secure it. The same earnest thought 
 and faith and devotion and surrender of the will that 
 these systems of philosophy demand will bring a man 
 very near to God. The counterfeit promissory notes 
 will pass current among a large class of the people for 
 awhile, and people may enjoy the things they pur- 
 chase, but there is a clearing house where the spurious 
 bills will not pass. The genuine notes are inlaid with 
 gold and purple threads — gold, "the faith which work- 
 eth by love," — purple, the marks of the atonement 
 thru Christ. They will purchase all and much more 
 here and they will let you past the portals of heaven's 
 clearing house into the glorious City of God. Is it 
 too severe, and is it uncharitable to call these systems 
 counterfeits? Let them show creative power in their 
 operations, and we will call them divine. But how 
 can they, since they have denied the e.xistence of a 
 Creator. And yet they would have you believe that 
 they are closely connected with God and Jesus. 
 The Creator has nowhere promised to give us all tlu- 
 
144 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 benefits of eternal life here — to remove the conse- 
 quences of all our inharniony with the laws of our 
 being. If He should cure us of all our maladies as 
 fast as they come, before we had learned the lesson 
 of obedience, he would be placing a premium on the 
 violation of His own laws. He has made life depend- 
 ent on the Seven Essentials set forth in this volume. 
 When men learn, how^ to get in right relation to these 
 essentials they know the laws of life, and may reap 
 the harvest of obedience. 
 
 The Law of Rest as we have seen connects man 
 with God if carried out in the innermost soul. As 
 the child's will must be submitted to the wise parents' 
 will in order to have a harmonious family, so the will 
 of God's creatures must be submitted to His will in 
 order that harmony may prevail in His kingdom. 
 And this submission means observance of those rela- 
 tions on which life depends. It is not a slavish, arbi- 
 trary submission, but a loving, de\out appreciation 
 of the superiority of divine creative power and Father- 
 hood. Such yielding brings into the soul quietness, 
 joy, comfort, rest, peace. There is rejoicing and hap- 
 piness in the appreciation of our environment and life 
 becomes worth living. He who knows this submis- 
 sion, in every conflict in life, meets a conquered foe, 
 for he has the invincible Creator on his side, "and if 
 God be for us who can be against us?" In such re- 
 lationship self-denial becomes pleasure, and obedience 
 privilege. 
 
 Natural and Spiritual Rest Contrasted. 
 
 There is a cjuality in spiritual rest which makes it 
 entirely different from natural rest, tho it be only 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 145 
 
 the exercise of the same kind of confidence toward 
 a grander, nobler object. Every man and woman daily 
 exercises confidence in the working of Natural Law; 
 they trust in the return of the seasons and they rest 
 in the Law of Gravitation. They lie down at night 
 with full expectation of the return of the morning. 
 Thousands admire the scientific workings of the Laws 
 of Astronomy and of the Laws of God in Nature. 
 They trust in the financial situation, in the civic con- 
 ditions produced by good government, in their church 
 and their family and social relationships. But these 
 do not bring spiritual comfort. There is something 
 lacking to round out and perfect the existing rela- 
 tionships. It is fellowship. To know and study the 
 works of creation and stop there brings no fellowship 
 with the Creator. This personal experience of loving, 
 restful acquaintance with the Great Father in Heaven 
 rounds out and perfects all the trust and repose we 
 may place in Llis works. "Thou wilt keep him in 
 perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because 
 he trusteth in thee." This is the acme of all human 
 attainment. There is nothing mysterious or marvel- 
 ous about it. It exists in partial perfection between 
 the true child and the true parent. Here is a Father 
 who has never deceived his child. The mother too 
 has been true to truth and sound principles. How 
 that child will honor, love, respect, even revere such 
 parents. What confidence will prevail in such a house- 
 hold, whether its members are present or absent. What 
 a fellowship prevails and makes that home a minia- 
 ture kingdom of heaven. 
 
 It is at the fellowship that the line must he drawn 
 between natural and spiritual rest. Man cannot have 
 
14(1 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 fellowship with the inanimate things. He may have a 
 reflection of the heavenly spiritual fellowship, with 
 those of his fellows who are also acquainted with God. 
 To have fellowship with the Father and with His 
 Son, Jesus Christ, is no more difficult than to have 
 fellowship with a true parent. To thus have fello^^ - 
 ship with God is to have fellowship with one another. 
 With Him is the past, present and future. He can and 
 will deal gently and kindly with our mistakes and 
 sins of the past, if vre come to Him in loving trust. 
 He watches over us in the present. "The Angel of 
 the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him 
 and delivereth them." Ps. 34:7. "All things work 
 together for good to them that love God, who are the 
 called according to His purpose." Rom. 8:28. He 
 has control of all our future interests. We may, by 
 loving confidence in Him, insure the continuance of 
 this life and make it the one to come. We lie down 
 at night with not a thought but that we will waken 
 with the light of the morning. We trust in nature 
 constantly. We may learn by listening to the voice 
 of our Heavenly Father to lie down peacefully, calmly, 
 restfully in death, knowing by faith in His word that 
 He will, in the glad resurrection morning, call us forth 
 to a life of love and joy and peace. 
 
 This spiritual fellowship and rest is the sure found- 
 ation of this life and the life to come. By trusting 
 nature and our fellowmen we may obtain temporar}^ 
 results. By attention to and confidence in the laws 
 of life alone we may be profited for this life, with rest 
 and a degree of peace. For "Bodily exercise profiteth 
 for a little season, but godliness is profitable in all 
 things, having the promise of the life that now is and 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 147 
 
 of that which is to come." He who trusts in nature 
 or any single object in nature or any system of laws 
 in nature, does not in so doing trust in God. He who 
 trusts the power does not necessarily trust the per- 
 sonality. >5ut he who trusts in Jehovah, the Creator, 
 and in His Son Jesus Christ, trusts all, trusts every- 
 thing except the fabrications of the enemy. He who 
 trusts the natural will get natural results. He wh< ■ 
 trusts the Creator will get Spiritual results. 
 
 An Illustration: It is not necessary to build on a 
 false foundation nor to try to rest secure by looking 
 to nature alone, when the sure foundation is so easy 
 of attainment, so universally approachable. The child 
 may have full sweet companionship, communion and 
 fellowship with the Father whom he has never seen. 
 A faithful mother or other friend has inspired confi- 
 dence in and love for the absent parent. And the par- 
 ent by his communications has established that confi- 
 dence, and the hope of a future union between the two 
 begets a growing fellowship which nothing but death 
 can sever. So our Father in Heaven, the Creator of 
 the universe, seeks communion- and fellowship with 
 us, and will establish communication with us when- 
 ever we reach the point where we appreciate His ac- 
 quaintance. He is a God of love, of pity, of sympathy, 
 of tender mercy. Paul calls Him "The Father of Mer- 
 cies and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in 
 all our affliction that we may be able to comfort them 
 which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith 
 we ourselves are comforted of God." 2. Cor. 1 : 4. 
 His character has been maligned even by some form.'- 
 of theology until mankind are afraid to approach Him. 
 Until His character and personality are appreciated 
 
148 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 there can be no fellowship with Him. If some of the 
 modern forms of theology, which deny the personality 
 of the Creator prevail, fellowship with Him must 
 cease because there can be no fellowship without a 
 clear sense of His personality. Fellowship with a 
 mere force or power is unthinkable. It would seem 
 that much of the modern teaching, especially evolu- 
 tion and the non-personality of Deity, were invented 
 on purpose to wipe out all idea of fellowship witli 
 the Creator. 
 
 Some healers are using the Law of Rest so as to 
 attract attention solely to themselves and the systems 
 they inculcate and thus they obscure and eclipse the 
 being of God in the minds of those who are drawn 
 toward them. But to those who can rise superior to 
 the errors of our time and appreciate not only cre- 
 ative sustaining power, but also the Creator Himself, 
 He stands ready to reveal Himself as a mighty helper. 
 "For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro thruout tlie 
 whole earth to show Himself strong in behalf of them 
 whose heart is perfect toward him." 2 Chron. 16:9. 
 When we can look above the things of time and sense 
 and let our confidence rest on Him who created and 
 sustains all things, whose life and character was ex- 
 emplified in that Man of Galilee who went about doing 
 good to lost suffering humanity, and say, "My Father 
 and my God, I will love Thee and serve Thee, I ^\ill 
 rest in Thee. Be Thou my Guide. Take control. 
 Deal with me as seemeth best to Thee. Thy will be 
 done in me here. Save me from myself now. Give 
 me the bright hope of eternal life in Thy kingdom. 
 Save me from earthly ills, nevertheless Thy will l)e 
 done;" when such a spirit pcr\ades the human soul 
 
MENTAL CAUSES AND MENTAL REMEDIES 149 
 
 there will come into the heart the sweet assurance of 
 heavenly rest and peace that passeth all understand- 
 ing. He who has drunk from this fountain of grace 
 will have no thirst for the fountains that have been 
 fouled by earthly influences. Under the guidance of 
 the Divine all natural objects of rest become a source 
 of spiritual and divine comfort because the soul sees 
 in them only parts of God's great plan for His crea- 
 tures here. 
 
 Broken Vessels. 
 
 But the natural objects of faith and rest apart from 
 fellowship with their Creator become only broken 
 vessels that can hold but a small supply of comfort 
 and that only for a little time. Rest in them does not 
 bridge the chasm between us and the future. The 
 assurance of the family physician and confidence in 
 and obedience to the laws of diet or breathing will 
 bring temporary peace and comfort, but here they end. 
 The future is all unprovided for. 
 
 "Hath a nation changed their gods, which yet are 
 no gods? but my people have changed their glory 
 for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye 
 heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid ; be ye very 
 desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have commit- 
 ted two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of 
 living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken 
 cisterns that can hold no water." Jer. 2: 11-Kv 
 
 The elements of power in Spiritual Rest are "Faith 
 which worketh by love," confidence and good will, 
 loving trust. C)ut of these grows every lovely thin*; 
 in human character. Every Christian grace can la- 
 drawn from this fountain. And the spirit of joyful 
 
150 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 obedience possesses the entire being. When these pre- 
 vail toward God in the human soul, that soul pours out 
 blessings on all with whom it comes in contact. There 
 is peace and prosperity within. There are no mental 
 disturbances, hence that large class of ills that comes 
 from mental disturbances can not find lodgment in that 
 being. Nor can ills exist that are due to the viola- 
 tions of other natural laws because they are all obeyed, 
 as well as the great moral law of ten precepts. This 
 is the mind of Christ. It is the saving, keeping power. 
 This is perfect hygiene and perfect Christianity united. 
 "Let him take hold of my strength, that he may 
 make peace with me; and he shall make peace witli 
 me." Isa. 27 : 5. 
 
CHAPTER VIIL 
 Physical Remedies for Diseases. 
 
 During the last fifty years it has been proven that 
 it is possible by the application of these Seven Essen- 
 tials with which wc are dealing, to place the average 
 patient in a condition to rise above nearly all diseased 
 conditions, and enable him or her, to live out the full 
 allotment of three score and ten years, or even more. 
 Experience would indicate that all healing processes, 
 as well as all processes of growth, are comparatively 
 slow. Impatience to get well often leads to defeat 
 and disaster. If you seek health out of a bottle yni 
 may succeed in alleviating the symptoms in one or- 
 gan, but sooner or later some other organ will be 
 found suffering, and in all probability the old symp- 
 toms will return. Oftener no relief, only what mor- 
 phine or some other quieting drug gives, is expe- 
 rienced. This is brought about by the deadening ef- 
 fect on the nervous system. This is the secret of re- 
 lief which headache powders give. Soon the dose must 
 be repeated and increased. These statements are not 
 true of natural germicides and vermifuges (worm de- 
 stroyers), which are exceedingly profitable remedies 
 if used wisely. 
 
 The natural means which sustain the body in health 
 and assist in its restoration are tabulated in the fol- 
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152 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
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 tabular views, but we did not deem it necessary, as 
 we only desire to illustrate that all things which may 
 under any circumstances be used in preserving and 
 restoring health are either legitimate uses or abuses of 
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15r> ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Not all the things tabulated in the preceding pages 
 are to be approved. Not all physical' games ; not all 
 mental diversion and games; nor the use of flesh, nor 
 hypnotism, nor the indiscriminate use of sedatives, 
 anesthetics and stimulants. The question of the wis- 
 dom of using animal serums is still unsettled. We 
 have classified these things with the clearly legitimate 
 ones because they are used to produce the results indi- 
 cated. 
 
 From this tabulated list we will choose a few of the 
 simpler remedies used in the great sanitariums. Most 
 of these may be applied at home. Careful attention to 
 details is necessary in the use of these healing agents. 
 Most of those who wish to learn to apply them will do 
 much better work by taking a few practical lessons. 
 However, one who has good common sense, with a fair 
 degree of practical training in life, will not go far 
 wrong" if he follows these suggestions to the best of 
 his ability. Most of them are so clear that the best 
 of results must follow if faithfully used. These reme- 
 dies form the basis of all true sanitarium practice, but 
 contain only a small part of the procedures. It is a 
 great help to the invalid to place himself in some good 
 institution and permit himself to be trained into habits 
 which make health as contagious as disease. 
 
 Sunbaths. 
 
 Sunbaths should be recommended in every case of 
 malnutrition, anemia, and neurasthenia, (nervous pros- 
 tration), blood poisoning, etc. In weakened run-down 
 conditions of the body they put the energy that is in 
 the sun directly in touch with the enfeebled powers 
 of the body, and sometimes work wonders in restoring 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 1ST 
 
 the sick to health. Dress in light weight, light colored 
 clothing, and expose the body as far and as long as 
 possible to the direct rays of the sun, without inducing 
 a feeling of depression. Some are advocating colored 
 clothing that will absorb the chemical rays. General 
 Pleasanton, about fifty years ago, said much about the 
 use of blue glass. Perhaps this is a very good sug- 
 gestion where the extreme rays of the more tropical 
 regions have to be provided against. But in the tem- 
 perate regions where the light is less intense the aver- 
 age invalid may need the action of these same chem- 
 ical rays to help purify the circulation. 
 
 Amber glasses should be used to protect the eyes 
 where they are over-sensitive to sunlight. Smoked 
 glasses weaken the eyes. The amber glass cuts out 
 only the irritating rays. 
 
 Always protect the head and face from the direct 
 rays. If the weather is hot wear a cork hat, or use 
 an umbrella. Put the head under the shade of a tree 
 with the body in the sun. Lie in the sunlight on a 
 cot. Walk in the sunlight, sit in it, ride in it, go out 
 and work moderately in it. There is life in its mod- 
 erate beams. When it reaches a temperature near that 
 of the body it becomes depressing, if long continued. 
 Then seek the shade, but not the darkness. The eyes 
 must be protected from rays reflected from the water 
 or from newly fallen snow, or the yellow sheen ct 
 ripened vegetation. Electric light baths are a fair 
 substitute for sunbaths in winter. Of course they are 
 not usually to be had except in some well-equipped 
 institution, or in some city home where there is access 
 to an electric current. 
 
158 ESSENTIALS To LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Rest Cure. 
 
 Get the patient's mind occupied with something be- 
 side his own troubles. Change is rest. Take him out 
 riding. Read something interesting. Repeat some 
 pleasantries. Give him something new and fresh to 
 think about. Open some hopeful prospects before 
 him. Encourage him to plan for something better. 
 Make him feel sure that he is to be well cared for. 
 Take away every possible incentive to worry. If you 
 are a Christian and he is not a blasphemer, labor to 
 have him feel a sense of creative power still working 
 and caring for the universe, the world and for man- 
 kind, and thus draw him toward the Creator. If po.^- 
 sible give him a fevv evening lessons in outdoor astron- 
 omy. Read to him deliberately Psalm 37, Matthew 
 11, last verses, and all the kindred expressions you 
 can find. Get all the legitimate "don't worry" litera- 
 ture you can before his mind. Teach him physical 
 relaxation ; to let his muscles become limp, to be de- 
 liberate in all his movements. If the day is gloomy 
 and the circumstances depressing introduce songs to 
 enliven the spirits. God's word has cheer and hope for 
 every hour of affliction, and it is our privilege "To 
 comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort 
 wherewith we ourselves have been comforted of God." 
 II Cor. 1 :4. Sometimes it is best to leave the healthy 
 individual for a time alone with his sorrow ; but the 
 chronic invalid needs good hopeful, joyous, not hilar- 
 ious, company. Let the nurse and friends and physi- 
 cian keep on hand a full supply of social sunshine. 
 Every earthly resource will sometimes be exhausted 
 in the effort to dispel the gloom that comes to a cer- 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 159 
 
 tain class of invalids. But heaven's storehouse is al- 
 ways full and he who will may draw. 
 
 We must not forget that in almost every case of 
 chronic illness the Law of Rest should first of all 
 be invoked. The physician who has the most assur- 
 ance and good cheer in his mental and physical make- 
 up, other things being equal, will have the greatest 
 success. Confidence and faith in the physician and 
 nurse must be inspired in the patient. He must be led, 
 if possible, to lay aside all care and anxiety, and rest 
 without fear. Wrath, jealousy, envy, grief and de- 
 spair must be soothed away. These emotions breed 
 death, while faith, hope, confidence, love, joy, and 
 peace generate conditions which tend toward life both 
 here and hereafter. Oftentimes all the doctor needs 
 to give is large doses of assurance seasoned with a 
 little sympathy and a few bread pills and a few days 
 of physical and mental rest. If the patient can be 
 induced to adopt the Scripture sentiment, "I will both 
 lay me down in peace and sleep for thou, Lord, only 
 makest me to dwell in safety," it will have a pro- 
 foundly benign influence on his case. Rest in all its 
 forms is the real cure for most of our maladies. How- 
 to train the people into it is the greatest problem which 
 the real Christian workers have in hand at the present 
 time. The real purpose of a large part of the remedies 
 we are outlining in this chapter is to give the body 
 immediate physical rest. But let the mind be brought 
 under the sweet peace of quietness and assurance and 
 hope first of all, and the victory is organized in almost 
 everv case. 
 
160 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 The Use of Air or Breathing as a Remedy. 
 
 To show the importance of this subject, it will be 
 necessary to speak briefly of the two divisions of the 
 nervous system. One class consists of the sensory 
 and motor nerves. The sensory receive impressions 
 through the senses, and the motor have control of all 
 the voluntary actions of the body. They are chiefly 
 under control of the will. The voluntary muscles are 
 all completely under their management. They have 
 their centers in the fore part of the brain. 
 
 The other class called the vital, and sometimes the 
 sympathetic nerves, are entirely independent of the 
 will. They have their centers mostly in the back part 
 of the brain, and control all the involuntary organs of 
 the body. I^'.very vital organ, lungs, liver, spleen, 
 bowels, kidneys and all, obey the impulses of these 
 nerves. They keep right on whether we wake or 
 sleep, whether we will or not. They manage all the 
 glands and veins and arteries, indeed everything ]^er- 
 taining to the care of the body. All repair work and 
 throwing out of waste is under their control. For the 
 great vital organs this work is chiefly done through a 
 substation known as Solar Plexus, just back of the pit 
 of the stomach. This bundle of nerves is sometimes 
 called the abdominal brain. Through it the brain cells 
 distribute the energy to all the vital organs. Weariness 
 in this nerve bundle and in the stomach is what some- 
 times makes the "pit of the stomach" so tender. A 
 sharp blow received here lessens the action of every 
 vital organ, and sometimes suspends the heart and 
 diaphragm. 
 
 Now we come to the application. If one uses the 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOK DISEASES 161 
 
 front part of the brain in studying, worrying, and fret- 
 ting, and keeps up the grind until the nervous energy 
 is exhausted, there will not be sufficient power left 
 to enable the vital nerves to carry on their work, and 
 very soon the nutrition, and depuration of the body 
 will lag and sickness must follow. There must be suf- 
 ficient rest given the sensory and motor system to 
 give time and provide energy for the laboratory work 
 of the stomach, liver and bowels to be thoroughly 
 done, or the machinery must cease to repair itself and 
 run down. Then will follow a multitude of ills en fl- 
 ing possibly in nervous prostration. 
 
 The second point we wish to make in our present 
 lesson is the fact that the diaphragm, the leading set 
 of muscles of the body, is at the command of both 
 sets of nerves. It is fully under the control and direc- 
 tion of the vital nerves. It is also possible for the 
 will to step in and take full management of this lead- 
 ing set of vital muscles and through it exercise con- 
 trol over most of the vital functions of the body and 
 extend its influence to all. The will may be made to 
 keep control until the diaphragm becomes strong and 
 vigorous in its action and completely able to carry 
 on successfully its work of stimulating, working, and 
 developing all the vital organs. This physiological 
 fact exalts the will to its true position of supreme c(-)n- 
 trol of all the bodily functions. These thoughts will 
 grow on the intelligent reader as he begins to practice 
 the following exercises, and reflects on the results. For 
 evidence that the diaphragm is the leader of all the 
 muscles see "Law of Breathing." 
 
 We may now understand why the man lives when he 
 gets his "mind made up" to live. In a spiritless, dis- 
 
162 ESSENTIALS TO LIffE AND HEALTH 
 
 couraged frame of mind the man forgets to breathe, the 
 vital machinery runs down, and the man dies. When 
 the will can be aroused to assert itself, the man begins 
 to think, and hope, and plan, and breathe, and then he 
 lives. This is the secret of will power in its relation 
 to health. It simply rouses the vital functions. 
 
 Development of Breathing Power. 
 
 Now we are ready to consider diaphragm gymnas- 
 tics which are the most useful exercises that can be 
 taught to the average invalid. 
 
 Panting or Vibratory Breathing. Begin with short, 
 rapid breathing. Do all your breathing through the 
 nostrils. Breathe so as to produce a quick and steady 
 up and down action of the diaphragm, and a corre- 
 sponding contraction and expansion of the waist line 
 and abdominal muscles. This exercise should be taken 
 with the waist line absolutely free. On retiring and 
 just before rising are good times to learn and practice 
 this lesson. You may call it panting or vibratory 
 breathing, as you choose. The main impulse is at the 
 pit of the stomach and waist line, but it extends to 
 every part of the abdomen. This fully takes the place 
 of all mechanical vibration to these parts and is far 
 more effective, because it puts new life into the hither- 
 to flabby muscles of the diaphragm and makes the 
 diaphragm capable of carrying on its involuntary work 
 vigorously and steadily. The writer began to practice 
 this form of breathing in 1865 and has been teaching 
 it ever since. 
 
 Forced Exhalation. After panting for half a minute 
 or so, then expel all the air possible from the lungs 
 
PHYSICAL, REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 163 
 
 and hold the breath out as long as possible without 
 discomfort. 
 
 Forced Inhalation. W'^hen the breath has been held 
 out for a short time, then take in a full vigorous in- 
 halation, holding the breath in, shrugging and twist- 
 ing the shoulders at the same time. Hold as long as 
 comfortable, then let the breath out, rest a moment 
 and repeat. 
 
 This triple breathing exercise will prove to be the 
 most important factor after diet in the cure of dyspep- 
 sia, constipation, liver troubles, anemia, lung consump- 
 tion, and prolapse of the stomach, abdominal and pel- 
 vic organs. Study these breathing exercises and prac- 
 tice them faithfully, as though your life depended on 
 it, for it does. Women wnll have to suspend all cloth- 
 ing from the shoulders and give full freedom to the 
 waist line. It will take some time for the veteran cor- 
 set wearers to restore the diaphragm to natural ac- 
 tivity. 
 
 Let us, for a moment, further study the breathing 
 organs and the breathing act. The chest cavity is an 
 airtight compartment containing the heart and lungs. 
 The meat pipe passes through it to the stomach. It 
 is surrounded by a firm casing formed by the ribs and 
 shoulder blades and collar bones. The only opening 
 into it in any sense is the trachea which conveys 
 air to the lungs ; but the lungs do not open in any way 
 into the cavity. The air enters the lungs and returns 
 through the trachea. The Hoor of this cavity 
 is the diaphragm which rises and falls with every 
 natural breath. When the diaphragm pulls downward 
 it also broadens at its base, thus enlarging the waist 
 line and tends to produce a vacuum in the chest and 
 
164 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 this expansion of the chest draws the air into the 
 lungs. When the diaphragm rises it relieves the 
 vacuum tendency, the waist line shrinks back, and the 
 air is expelled from the lungs. This natural breathing 
 act also involves the abdomen and sets up a sort 
 of see-saw between the diaphragm above and the abdo- 
 minal muscles below and in front. The diaphragm 
 pulls downward, pressing the abdominal contents 
 against the abdominal muscles, placing them on some- 
 thing of a tension. Then the diaphragm relaxes back 
 to its position of rest and the abdominal muscles, by 
 natural contraction, and in forced exhalation, by will 
 power, lift the abdominal contents backward and up- 
 ward toward the chest cavity. This keeps all the abdo- 
 minal contents in constant motion, back and forth, up 
 and down. Every domestic animal breathes fully and 
 freely from arm pits to hips. Little girls and boys 
 breathe in this manner. Men do unless they have been 
 sustaining their lower garments with a belt instead of 
 suspenders. In civilized womanhood we generally find 
 the corsets or waist bands have restrained the action 
 of the diaphragm until the upper chest muscles have 
 acquired the art of expansion and contraction, the 
 waist line is stationary and the abdominal organs are 
 pressed downward and held there until the abdominal 
 muscles have lost their contractibility and all the or- 
 gans are prolapsed. The roof of the chest cavity, which 
 is quite firm and inelastic, is made to rise and fall in- 
 stead of the floor, which is nothing but a system of 
 broad elastic muscles. Thus the whole act of breathing 
 is reversed and the digestive organs which need the 
 wave-like motion imparted to them by the natural ac- 
 tion of the diaphragm are left inert or rather held in 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 165 
 
 the grip of the corset and waist band. This process 
 of breaking up the natural way of breathing and bring- 
 in£r about this debilitated state of the vital domain 
 would be intolerable if women waited until they were 
 twenty years of age. The little girl must be taken 
 while the body is plastic and growing or it would be 
 a very painful ordeal. 
 
 Now to correct the unnatural conditions do your 
 best to get the diaphragm at every breath to pull 
 downward so as at first to slightly expand the waist- 
 line, holding down, if necessary, the upper chest ex- 
 pansion. The main effort will be to get the diaphragm 
 to wake up and once more become strong and active 
 as it was in the little girl. Just stand a little eight- 
 year-old girl before you and see how the waist line 
 expands and contracts at every breath. After getting 
 a little expansive movement at the waist line then 
 try to draw in the abdomen and force the air out. If 
 you have difficulty securing control make a little ex- 
 pulsive cough and feel with the hand how it affects 
 the waist line at the pit of the stomach. This will 
 give you a start. This triple breathing practice means 
 the enlargement of the waist line, the strengthening 
 of all the muscles of breathing, and the increasing of 
 the activity of all the blood making organs and the 
 energizing of the whole body. Vibratory breathing 
 is the true form of vibration and will take the place of 
 mechanical vibration, though there may be cases that 
 would be benefitted by using both together on the 
 start. 
 
 One point we have not emphasized sufficiently. The 
 solar plexus lies right back of the pit of the stomach. 
 This is the chief center, as we have alreadv said, 
 
166 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 through which the brain runs the heart, hmgs, Hver. 
 spleen, bowels, and kidneys. There are other plexuses 
 which help control the heart and lungs and the lower 
 abdominal contents. All these get much of their stim- 
 ulus from the breathing act. The writer knows from 
 actual experiment that vibration of the solar plexus 
 will do much to quiet the sympathetic action of a dis- 
 turbed heart. This round of exercises, vibratory 
 breathing, forced inhalation and forced exhalation, will 
 strengthen every part of the vital nervous system most 
 wonderfully through these centers we have just men- 
 tioned. Don't forget this point. 
 
 Caution — don't overdo. Little and often is the law of 
 all exercise. Whether you are well or sick, after a 
 few weeks' careful practice you will find yourself 
 greatly improved. The writer has several friends, 
 any one of whom can lie on his back and 
 let a man of his own weight stand with both feet just 
 below the solar plexus and he can toss him up and 
 down with ease. All that has ever been done to de- 
 velop this power is the simple vibratory breathing. 
 
 Weight- Lifting, 
 
 A most important procedure. While lying on the 
 back place a weight of from ten to fifteen pounds a 
 little below the pit of the stomach and try to raise it 
 with the taking in of the breath. The nicest weight 
 to use is a small canvas bag about half full of shot. 
 Coarse clean gravel will do just as well. Practice this 
 until the muscles are a little weary, three times each 
 day. It will be a wonderful aid in restoring strength 
 to the diaphragm. 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 1«.T 
 
 Acquiring Chest Poise and Development. 
 
 Wing Movement. Extend the arms sidewise on a 
 level with the shoulders. Now describe a circle about 
 one foot or more in diameter with the finger tips, hold- 
 ing the arms straight. Make the circle by bringing 
 arms forward and upward, and backward and down- 
 ward. At the same time the arms rise breathe in a 
 full, strong breath (always through the nose). As 
 they go downward on the back part of the circle, 
 breathe' out; keep the chin well drawn in, and the 
 shoulders back, and work this exercise until the arms 
 begin to get quite heavy. Repeat frequently during 
 the day. 
 
 Lung Packing. Standing erect with the arms at 
 the side, bring the finger tips to the arm pits, letting 
 the elbows extend straight out sidewise. At the same 
 time as the finger tips come up, take in about a halt 
 a breath. Hold this breath in and let the hands drop 
 down again to the side. Repeat this three times, the 
 last time taking in all the breath possible. Then 
 holding the fingers still at the arm pits and holding 
 the breath shrug the shoulders for a moment till the 
 lung tissues have had a chance to expand. Then lower 
 the hands letting out the breath at the same time. In 
 saying take in all the breath possible, we do not mean 
 that you should strain the lungs. 
 
 This system of exercise, Panting, Forced Exhala- 
 tion, Forced Inhalation, Weight-Lifting, Wing Move- 
 ment and Lung Packing, will be found always in order. 
 They may be taught in a modified form,, even to every 
 bed-ridden invalid. 
 
 A condition of the vital organs in which deep, full, 
 thorough, vigorous breathing will continuously pre- 
 
168 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 vail, is the end to be attained in these exercises. Once 
 gained the battle for health is practically won. Then 
 less thought will be required in caring for the body, 
 for it will run itself. Especially should they be taught 
 in cases of poor nutrition, lung trouble, nervous pros- 
 tration and anemia. In sympathetic heart affections 
 use panting and grow carefully into the others. Vi- 
 bration of the solar plexus will often quiet a disturbed 
 heart. Panting accomplishes this. If the lung tissues 
 have been strained by glass blowing or other similar 
 work, be careful in recommending these exercises. In 
 such a case only gentle, full breathing should be in- 
 dulged, with gentle panting. In organic heart troubles 
 steady, even gentle, full, breathing will be found best. 
 In consumption use the caution to begin gently and 
 increase the exertion as the patient improves. 
 
 Air Bath or Dry Mitten Friction. 
 
 This is an excellent skin stimulant, almost equal to 
 a water bath ; better in many cases where the patient 
 is feeble and takes cold from the slightest causes. It 
 is an excellent thing to begin with, in "run down" 
 cases. On rising and retiring with the room fairly 
 comfortable, take an ordinary turkish towel or a me- 
 dium flesh brush, and go thoroughly over every part 
 of the surface, spending several minutes until the body 
 is all aglow. Follow with a touch of alboline or cocoa- 
 nut oil, or olive oil all over the surface. For very 
 sensitive people this is better than a cold morning 
 sponge bath. If taken at night no oil, except in very 
 feeble cases is necessary. 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 169 
 
 Electric Pads. 
 
 The most modern and most convenient method of 
 applying heat, where the electric current can be se- 
 cured, is the electric heating pad. If dry heat is 
 wanted use the pad dry. If moist heat, place next the 
 skin a cloth wrung out of warm water and place the 
 pad over it, covering all with a large, thick blanket of 
 flannel. This is not materially better than the hot 
 water bottle, except it is lighter and may be kept con- 
 tinuously hot with less trouble. 
 
 Reactions. 
 
 A few remarks on this important topic before we 
 enter upon the study of heat and cold, as remedies, 
 will help the reader to appreciate some of the results 
 that may be obtained in the uses of water of difYercnt 
 temp'natures. 
 
 Whenever any portion of the body is exposed to heat 
 for any brief length of time the blood is drawn to 
 the part involved, the blood and lymph vessels and 
 glands become distended and there is a ruddy glow 
 in the skin. Soon after the heat is withdrawn the tis- 
 sues shrink and the blood recedes away from the part 
 that has been over-heated and the part becomes cold, 
 or cooler than usual. If, on the contrary, cold is ap- 
 plied just the opposite effects follow. These are called 
 reactions. By changing from heat to cold suddenly 
 five or six times in succession the reaction to warmth 
 may be very much intensified and the after effects 
 greatly prolonged. By thus increasing the capacity 
 of the veins and arteries and lymph \ essels and glands 
 in any part the nutrition of the ])art is better provided 
 for. 
 
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170 ESSENTIALrS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
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 If a high degree of heat is applied for a long time, 
 
 say half an hour or longer, the temperature sense will 
 lessen the blood supply and all the tissues involved will 
 become depleted and shrunken. A high degree of cold 
 long continued, will produce a shriveled condition of 
 the parts but nature lessens the supply of blood in this 
 case because it is compelled to by the cold instead 
 of lessening the supply because it is not needed to keep 
 up the heat. The power in the body may be hindered 
 in its efforts to get the blood to flow to the parts that 
 are exposed to the cold until the tissues become dis- 
 eased or at least greatly enfeebled. 
 
 Again, just enough coolness may be continuously 
 applkd to the surface to induce nature to put up a 
 strong fight to keep the surface warm. This will per- 
 manently increase the capacity of the blood and lymph 
 vessels of the skin and underlying tissue. The con- 
 tinuous temperature best suited to accomplish this 
 end ranges from 97° down to about 94°. 
 
 Each of these procedures will become necessary in 
 the various cases of disturbed circulation with which 
 we shall meet, and we shall find use for even the long- 
 continued application of cold in fevers and germ in- 
 fections. 
 
 Water as a Medicine. 
 
 Drinking. If a body weighs one hundred and fift}' 
 pounds it contains one hundred and twenty pounds of 
 water. Now, if a person of this weight drinks one 
 pint (one pound) of water daily, it will take one hu.n- 
 dred and twenty days to renew the water in that body. 
 If he drinks two pints daily, it will take sixty days 
 to renew the fluid in the system. Wouldn't you think 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 171 
 
 water would get a little old and stale doing so much 
 work of washing- as it has to, in sixty days? But sup- 
 pose four pints are used daily, it will take thirty days 
 to renew the lluid. If six pints are used daily, it will 
 take about three weeks to thoroughl}- renew the body 
 Huids. This is about the proper amount of lluid for 
 an average man. This calculation is on the supposi- 
 tion that the person is using only dry foods. In hot 
 weather more will be required. We talk about blood 
 purifiers in the form of drugs and decoctions. There 
 is no such thing except in water and air and pure food. 
 You can wash out the poison from your blood just as 
 easily and readily as you can wash oft" the soil from 
 your exterior, providing the body has a moderate' 
 amount of vitality left. You may talk about water 
 as a sudorific ( a sweat producer), you may call it a 
 diuretic (an increaser of urine), you may say it is an 
 expectorant .(a cough loosener), you may call it a 
 cathartic (a bowel loosener), and so on, but all these 
 multiplied w^ords do not add to the usefulness of water. 
 The simple language of everyday science may still 
 say that pure water is the greatest purifier and elimi- 
 nator for the human body that is known to mankind. 
 
 External Use of Water. 
 
 Cool hand bathing is best taken on rising, in a warm 
 room. Water should be used at a temperature of hO 
 to 70 degrees. Feeble patients or those who are below 
 normal should begin with the higher temperature. Dip 
 the hands in water and briskly rub the arms and chest 
 and abdomen. You may use a bath mitten if you pre- 
 fer. Then wipe these parts and proceed to others, 
 drying each part as you go. At the close rub vigorously 
 
172 ESSENTIALS TO IJFE AND HEALTH 
 
 willi a good moderately coarse towel ; close with a 
 touch of oil all over the body. This last suggestion 
 is especially important in cold or damp weather. A 
 thin coat of oil is almost equal to an overcoat in chilly 
 weather. In very hot climates it acts as a cooler 
 through assisting radiation. From week to week the 
 temperature of the water may be lowered^ as the vital 
 resistance is increased. This bath, which need occupy 
 not more than ten minutes, is better taken in the 
 morning than in the evening, but better taken at night 
 than not at all. This precaution carefully followed 
 is one of the very best things to prevent colds, bron- 
 chitis, sore throat, grip and consumption. It simply 
 trains the blood to flow through the skin and pre\ents 
 internal congestion or taking cold. 
 
 Cool shower bath. This or a cool pour or spray 
 are about as good as a cool sponge or hand bath, espe- 
 cially if the spray comes with some force. The cool 
 plunge or tub bath either are excellent for those who 
 are fairly strong. Use same temperatures as for cool 
 hand or sponge bath. 
 
 Fomentation or Applications of Heat and Water. 
 
 Moist heat is well applied by heavy blanket flannel cut 
 in yard squares or less and folded to meet the wants 
 of the case. Take one end in each hand after folding, 
 dip the middle in boiling hot water, then wring by the 
 ends, by twisting and ])ulling. Lay a dry flannel next 
 the skin and ajiply this over it. Put a cover over all, of 
 heavy woolen, to keep in the heat, but don't blister 
 your patient. Change every five minutes. Moist heat 
 is the best for most cases of pain, especially pleurisy. 
 Dry heat can be applied by any convenient means, but 
 
PHYSICAIv REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 173 
 
 the best is a large rubber hot-water bottle. Hot stove 
 griddles or bricks, or hot plates wrapped in paper and 
 cloth, or salt and sand bags, or a soapstone or a hoi 
 block of wood, anything may be improvised under 
 forced circumstances to convey heat. Either moist or 
 dry heat is the best means known for relieving most 
 cases of pain. Cold, in a few cases, will be best. In 
 some cases alternations. 
 
 These consist of fomentations changed to ice or cold 
 water every five minutes, just for one-half to one min- 
 ute. Use a towel wrung out of ice water or use the 
 ice. Repeat from four to six times. For the feet two 
 buckets of water, one as hot as can be borne and one 
 as cold as you can get. Change back and forth for 
 twenty or thirty minutes, dipping in the cold water 
 last, just for half a minute, then rub dry. This is the 
 best and only quick remedy for chilblains. Four treat- 
 ments will cure. This is a great remedy for cold limbs 
 and feet. When thus applied it helps out wonderfully 
 in relieving bronchitis and all congestions of the head 
 and upper part of the body, by taking the blood away 
 to the extremities. In suminer in our climate G(k1 
 daily gives us alternations of heat and cold, to keep 
 us toned up. We may intensify these applications and 
 apply them locally with great advantage to any part 
 that needs special aid for the circulation. 
 
 Salt Glows. 
 
 These arc gi\cn l)y wrtting tlic surface of the 
 body, and then rubbing all over with dr\' fine salt : 
 or if the salt be coarse make it cpiite wet. If very 
 thorough results are wanted, give a full bath at \(X) 
 degrees f(^r five to ten minutes, then stand the patient 
 
174 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Up in the bath and apply the salt. Spray or rinse the 
 salt off, cooling down ten to fifteen degrees as the 
 patient can bear. Always give oil rub to close. This 
 is one of the best means known to increase the activity 
 of the skin, especially in bronchial and liver difficulties. 
 Three times a week is often enough. 
 
 Cold Mitten Friction. 
 
 Stand your patient in a warm foot bath, in a warm 
 room, put on a pair of turkish mittens, dip the hands 
 into ice water and rub your patient briskly, first arms, 
 then legs, then chest and back; wipe dry, rubbing thor- 
 oughly and finish with a touch of oil well distributed 
 with the hands. Most excellent for all forms of in- 
 ternal congestion, and whenever the skin is cold and 
 inactive. A sovereign remedy for chronic malaria. 
 Sometimes it is best to give the patient a short hot bath 
 first. 
 
 Ice Poultice. 
 
 Put coarse bits of ice between two thicknesses of 
 Turkish towelling. Wring out occasionally to pre- 
 vent dripping from the towel. Never continue more 
 than half an hour without changing to heat for three 
 minutes. Useful in fevers, pneumonia, diphtheria, and 
 appendicitis. 
 
 TTie Heating Compress. 
 
 Wring out, medium dry, cheese cloth or any light- 
 weight cotton or linen material from very cold water. 
 Apply three or four thicknesses over the part where 
 wanted. Cover this with a sheet of oil-silk or rubber ; 
 old mackintosh will do for some parts. Over this 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 175 
 
 wrap from two to four heavy thicknesses of flannel, 
 enough broader to cover the dampness well, pinning 
 it on snug with safety pins. It should warm up very 
 nicely in a short time, say ten or fifteen minutes. 
 If it does not soon become comfortable let it be 
 removed and the part rubbed thoroughly dry. This 
 is just the thing to follow fomentations to the throat, 
 chest and abdomen and to apply to the joints in 
 rheumatism, and for sprains and bruises, to remain 
 on all night. In the morning remove the compress, 
 bathe with cool water, rub dry and use oil. This 
 is the best form of poultice. Most excellent for 
 croup. This remedy is the most effective of all that 
 are used by medical men for increasing the circula- 
 tion in any part of the body. There is nothing better 
 for sore throat, or sprains and bruises ; for slow liver 
 and stomach, for cold in the head and headaches. It 
 makes more blood flow through the parts to and over 
 which it is applied. It will remove recent bony 
 growths by causing absorption. Recent ringbones or 
 bone spavins may be removed from a horse. Persist- 
 ance with a large wet sponge and a light wrap for six 
 weeks will work wonders. Bind the sponge on the 
 part, then pour in a cup of cold water every two or 
 three hours. The fomentation for a few minutes pre- 
 ceding adds to the effectiveness of the heating com- 
 press. 
 
 The Abdominal Girdle, 
 
 This is one of the most effective forms of the heat- 
 ing compress. It is of such great value in liver and 
 stomach disorders that its use should be emphasized 
 separately. A band of cheese cloth, long enough to 
 
176 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 reach entirely about the waist, folded into several 
 thicknesses so as to l)c four to seven inches wide, is 
 wrung out of cold water and snugly drawn about the 
 waist. Over this is placed a band of thin rubber cloth 
 or oiled silk aliout ten inches in width. Outside this 
 again is the double or triple thickness of heavy flannel, 
 more than a foot in width pinned on closely. This 
 should be adjusted on retiring and worn all night. 
 When removed in the morning the parts that. ha\e 
 been covered should be thoroughly bathed with cold 
 water. This has a most benign influence on the stom- 
 ach, liver, spleen, kidneys and solar plexus. Should be 
 used every night for a month at a time and then 
 discontinued for a week and repeated. Chronic con- 
 gestions are greatly relieved in these parts by this 
 procedure, especially if preceded by very hot fomenta- 
 tions. 
 
 Neutral Bath. 
 
 The patient is put into a full tub of water, so as to 
 entirely cover every part of the body. Temperature 
 for a feeble patient 99 degrees to start, letting cool 
 down slowly to 97 or 96 degrees during the early 
 part of the time the patient is in the bath. If the 
 l)atient is tolerably strong, start in at 98 degrees, let 
 it cool down to 95 the first time. Hold the water at 
 these lower temperatures by letting in just a little 
 warm water and stirring it with a dee]) underneath 
 motion toward the head of the tul). If possible, a 
 blanket should be spread over the tub, to help hold the 
 temperature. Do not leave the patient alone for one 
 minute; sometimes he will go to sleej) in the tub; 
 sometimes he will become nervous. After from 30 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 177 
 
 to 60 minutes take the patient out of the bath and 
 dry with a full sheet wrapped about, by gently patting. 
 Use no friction whatever. The nerves must not be 
 stirred up. Put the patient to bed immediately, well 
 wrapped up, with a hot water bottle to the feet. The 
 best time for this bath is in the evening before the 
 usual bedtime. The temperature may be allowed to 
 run down as low as 94 or 93 degrees with tolerably 
 strong patients, but look out that the patient does 
 not begin to complain of chilliness. If the blood is 
 driven away from the skin the etifect is lost. 
 
 The philosophy of this procedure may be expressed 
 by saying that as the water drops below the tempera- 
 ture of the body, the nervous S3^stem begins to put 
 up a fight to keep the surface temperature up to the 
 normal. This is done l)y sending more blood into the 
 skin. This is one of the finest illustrations of natural 
 stimulation, to the circulation. But its effect on the 
 patient is sedative in that it takes the blood away 
 from the brain. It is seldom one finds a tub bath deep 
 enough beneath the overflow to give a neutral bath. 
 The whole body must be submerged. So, as for many 
 other treatments, the place to s^o is some good well 
 e(]uipped sanitarium. It requires no small degree of 
 experienced skill to watch a patient successfully 
 through such a treatment, and accomplish in one hour 
 what months of medicine taking has failed to do. lUit 
 it can be done, and when one has had the experience 
 of getting well in this way, he will feel as though a 
 new era has dawned. There is power in this system 
 to conquer many hitherto incurable maladies. Insomnia 
 and insanitv should bo handled with this remedv. 
 
178 ESSENTIAL,S TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 How to Give a Sweat. 
 
 Give the patient plenty of hot water, hot herb 
 tea or hot lemonade, to drink. Then you may use 
 one of several methods. First, let him sit in a tub 
 of hot water with feet in a foot bath a little warmer, 
 and keep him wrapped well with three or four 
 blankets. Or, second, lay several blankets on the bed, 
 with a heavy flannel one on top. Wring a light 
 flannel blanket out of hot water as you would a fo- 
 mentation cloth (see Fomentations). Spread this out 
 quickly over all. Have the patient lie down on this, 
 and wrap him up as soon as possible ; first in the 
 hot one, quickly bringing it close about the whole 
 body from neck to feet. Have ready hot water spinal 
 bottle for the back and some hot bricks, one for the 
 feet, one for each side at the ribs, and one or two 
 outside the limbs. See that they are wrapped so as 
 not to burn the patient. Put these quickly in place 
 and wrap with each of the other blankets separately. 
 Of course caution and judgment must be used in not 
 getting the hot bricks and bottles so close as to burn 
 the patient. This is called a hot blanket pack. 
 
 A cold sheet pack with hot water bottles or bricks 
 can be given very similarly. Wring a cotton sheet 
 quite dry out of cold water and use instead of the hot 
 blanket. Pack the limbs and sides with hot water 
 bottles or bricks well wrapped as before. If the per- 
 son is fairly strong the reaction in this pack will 
 make it quite as effective as the other. In high fevers 
 use the cold sheet with only a hot water bottle to the 
 feet. This pack will be very grateful to the fever 
 patient. Or, third, let the patient sit in a chair with 
 his feet in a pail of water as hot as can be borne, 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 179 
 
 wrapped up close with blankets down to the floor, 
 put underneath the chair a lighted alcohol lamp, or a 
 pail partly filled with hot water; into this continue to 
 drop hot bricks until the results are accomplished. 
 Now either of these methods will bring the results, 
 but the first three are preferable. The patient is liable 
 to faint in the fourth on account of the more erect 
 posture. In either case let the patient continue to 
 drink after getting into the sweat. 
 
 The electric light bath found in all well equipped 
 sanitariums is the most effective of any indoor bath. 
 It works rapidly without overheating the body by 
 direct stimulation of the sweat glands. But the best 
 sweat is a full exposure, except the head, to the direct 
 rays of the sun, under a temperature of 85 to 90 de- 
 grees F., or even higher, after the free use of fluids 
 internally. 
 
 After sweating sufficiently to meet the circum- 
 stances of the case, say twenty to fort}- minutes, in 
 a few cases longer, then in either method have the 
 room especially warm on taking the patient out. 
 Either give a tub bath, or sponge bath, or spray the 
 patient off, or dash the body with water from 90 to 
 75 degrees. Wipe dry, finish with a coat of oil and 
 put him to bed, even in the day time for a few hours, 
 with hot water bottles or bricks to the feet. 
 
 The second and third methods are usually known 
 as hot and cold packs. A full hot leg bath up to the 
 knees will work like a charm in many cases, if the 
 drinking is thoroughly attended to. Sweating is espe- 
 cially valuable in the early stage of fevers and in colds 
 and la grippe. A panacea for the latter if taken early. 
 
180 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Caution — Always empty the bowels with a full 
 eiienia before a sweat. 
 
 Massage. 
 
 This is a system of manipulation by friction strok- 
 in^i^, kneadini^, wrin.s^int^-. tapping, beating, spatting. 
 A'ibration, etc.. by which the venous blood is drawn 
 and pushed along the veins toward the heart. The 
 lymph in the tissues which has already deposited its 
 burden of building material and picked up its load of 
 waste is urged forward toward the veins. New heal- 
 ing material from the arteries is also pressed forward, 
 in its onward progress to the lymphatics, wdiich have 
 already been cleared, and the process of carrying the 
 newly digested and aerated building material to all 
 the parts where it is needed is greatly accelerated. 
 The nutrition of all manipulated parts is greatly in- 
 creased and the waste removed. Tt is a most thorough 
 system of passive exercise, which through the work 
 of another, does for the wdiole body what ordinary 
 active exercises would accomplish in health. It is 
 so thorough in its effects that the body ma}' be com- 
 l)letely tired out in the case of one not used to massage 
 in thirty minutes without severe efifort on the part 
 of the operator. The weariness, as in all other cases, 
 is caused by the setting loose into the blood current 
 of those poisons and waste elements which have, on 
 account of slowness of circulation, been lingering here 
 and there in the system. Tt is a very im])ortant agency 
 in olfl chronic cases. For men who stick to sedentary 
 employment it becomes a necessity. If properly given 
 it is very soothing to nearly all, except fever patients, 
 and with these it should never be used. 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 181 
 
 Swedish Movements. 
 
 These consist of both passive and resistive move- 
 ments of the joints. They do for the ligaments and 
 cartilages of the joints what massage does for the tis- 
 sues which may be reached with the hands. They 
 consist in carefully, thoroughly rolling and stretching 
 the joints in every proper manner to start the circula- 
 tion and clear out the waste material that may have 
 stopped too long, in and about, the joints. 
 
 Osteopathy. 
 
 True osteopathy is a specialized massage combined 
 with Swedish movements. It has been claimed by 
 the first who practiced it that all disease w-as due 
 either to misplacements or superfluous growths in and 
 about the spinal joints and along the nerve tracks. But 
 this theory is repudiated by the latest school of this 
 specialty, and many sanitarium practices are being 
 woven into the system. It is applied chiefly to joints 
 and spine and in connection with other rational meth- 
 ods becoiues exceedingly effective. 
 
 Tensing Exercises. 
 
 As a means of quickly clearing out from the muscles 
 the worn out material, there is no system of active 
 exercise equal to this. Jt consists in setting the two 
 classes of muscles, the extensors and flexors, so that 
 the muscles e(|ually oppose each other. Now move the 
 part slowly, and deliberately, but firmly and steadily 
 through a full course of common calisthenic or gym- 
 nastic exercises. Take the arms first, then each limb, 
 then the neck and body ; in ten minutes mt^rc worn 
 out material mav be loosened and set moving" than in 
 
182 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 an hour of ordinary exercise. Yawning, gaping and 
 stretching are natural expressions of this exercise. 
 They are nature's efforts to clear the circulation. 
 
 Vermifuges. 
 
 These are worm destroyers. Every druggist is so 
 well acquainted with this class of remedies that wc do 
 not need to specify. They are given to kill the para- 
 sites. They belong under the head of Rest producers, 
 as they rid the body of its foes and give a chance for 
 peace to reign. 
 
 Germicides. 
 
 As this book deals almost entirely with the primary 
 natural agencies it will not be wise here to launch out 
 into an exhaustive study of this great subject. Only 
 a few first principles will be considered. Animal foods 
 greatly favor the growth of germs in the alimentary 
 canal. Fruits of all kinds hinder their growth. Work- 
 ing on this principle the best surgeons feed their ]ia- 
 ticnts, if possible, for a few days previous to severe 
 operations on a diet of fruits and sterilized grains. 
 This clears the bowels of the Bacillus Coli or renders 
 this germ inert. This nearly always prevents opera- 
 tions being followed by peritonitis, which used to be 
 the dread of the surgeon. This emphasizes the value 
 of fruit diet in everyday life. 
 
 The idea prevails in some sections that fruit is the 
 cause of bowel trouble. While some persons cannot 
 eat fruit at all, we want to say that good ripe fruit 
 does not cause disease of the bowels. Green fruits 
 may. Where disturbances seem to be due to eating 
 ripe fruit, observation will most likely disclose the fact 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 183 
 
 that the person was using pork or fat meats of some 
 kind, or indulging in pastry shortened with lard, or 
 was eating lajge quantities of butter. Animal fats, 
 especially lard, will work havoc in hot weather, with 
 most any stomach when mixed in witli fruits. Pork 
 and lard eaten with other foods is one of the great 
 causes of bilious attacks. 
 
 Nearly all the aromatic herbs and plants and the es- 
 sential oils made from them have the powder to destroy 
 germs. Hence, those which are not harmful may and 
 should be used in stomach and bowel troubles, and 
 as inhalations for diseases of the nose, throat and 
 lungs. The use of peppermint and spearmint tea and 
 cinnamon water, one part cinnamon essence to ten 
 parts water, are always in order for common bowel 
 difificulties except constipation. Most of the resinous 
 gums are also germicides. Camphor gum taken in 
 pellets the size of a wheat grain every two hours for 
 five or six times., then three or four times a day. is 
 one of the best remedies for severe bowel troubles 
 caused by climatic changes. 
 
 The aroma of the evergreen forests in the mountain 
 altitudes no doubt exercises a germicidal effect and 
 thus helps to bring healing to bronchial and lung 
 troubles. 
 
 It is the opinion of the writer that nearly all positive 
 good which medicines seem to do is due to their power 
 to destroy germs. Many minerals are germicides, but 
 few of them may be safely used in the stomach. Salt 
 and soda are germicides. Salt may be used in the 
 food in very small quantities; but in large quantities 
 it greatly hinders digestion, and becomes one cause of 
 gout, a disease which sedentary peoj^le arc not very 
 
184 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 proud of. Soda may sweeten a sour stomach but it 
 does not prevent the return of the trouble and may 
 result in damage to the body. Being, like salt, only 
 another form of sodium, it helps to cause gout. The 
 human body cannot take minerals in any quantity and 
 convert them into tissue except as they have been 
 taken up by plant life and changed into vegetable cell 
 structure. 
 
 Applications of cold hinder germ growths and 
 though they do not destroy the germs, they become 
 a most efficient remedy in fevers by preventing the 
 fever producing germs from multiplying. This is the 
 great santiarium method for treating typhoid fever and 
 pneumonia. It has been said of late that long con- 
 tinued freezing will destroy germs. Perhaps those 
 which were frozen up in the Arctic regions at the time 
 of the flood are all inert by this time and perhaps a less 
 length of time might suffice to freeze them dead, but 
 you beware of the ice gathered from the old mill pond 
 or the dirty river, and you will be safe. 
 
 In the case of cjuinsy and other glandular swellings 
 caused by germs, heat and cold, applied alternately 
 will stimulate glandular activity and throw out the 
 germs. Success depends on an early commencement. 
 It is not wise to go further into this s,ubjcct here. Prog- 
 ress is being made and we will probably know much 
 more of germicides a few years hence than we now 
 know. 
 
 Let us not forget the pOAver of sunlight as a germi- 
 cide and may we learn how to use it. It is inexpen- 
 sive yet, and w^e may safely live in hope that no one 
 will ever succeed in getting a monopoly on it. 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 185 
 
 Electricity. 
 
 This excellent healing agent, as we have shown in 
 other places, is a direct product of sun energy. The 
 various forms, as dynamic, static, faradic, sinu- 
 soidal and galvanic, vary chiefly in the quality ami 
 rate of vibration and valume of current. The static and 
 dynamic currents are identical with the natural dis- 
 play which we call "lightning." The motion and fric- 
 tion which produce these powerful electric currents by 
 some mysterious process becomes condensed and 
 liquefied so that it can be handled and directed and 
 changed back into motion, heat, or light, as may be 
 desired. 
 
 "While the powerful current may cause death in- 
 stantly, the milder currents may be so used as to be 
 a great aid in the restoration of the sick. The philoso- 
 phy of cure lies in the exercise given the part to which 
 it is applied, through the almost infinitely fine vibra- 
 tions imparted to the cell structure of the body, by 
 which waste cells are liberated and new material al- 
 lowed to come in and take their place. 
 
 Vaccination. 
 
 The smallpox virus modified by passing it through 
 an animal, the cow, is inoculated into the blood. In 
 this case we say the body begins to fight the 
 poison by developing anti-toxin — anti-poison — and 
 so establishes an indefinite vital resistance to the 
 small pox virus. This, no doubt, if properly managed, 
 is a very wise procedure. But the public have had 
 reason to denounce vaccination in some cases because 
 not niany years ago there was little or no care as tc 
 the source from whence the \ irus was obtained. There 
 
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186 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 is no doubt but foul diseases have been inoculated 
 into the innocent. The safeguards about the produc- 
 tion of the virus at the present time ought to insure 
 safety if those who insert it keep their tools and hands 
 clean. But now that tuberculosis is becoming so uni- 
 versally prevalent among cattle it will require more- 
 wisdom and care than ever before to secure virus that 
 is free from tuberculosis infection. After all, we can- 
 not help sympathizing with those who have stren- 
 uously opposed vaccination. 
 
 Developing Vital Resistance. 
 
 As we have said in another place there is death in 
 every element of our natural environment. Too much 
 sunlight brings sunstroke. Germs in air and water 
 and food are often death dealing. Too much protec- 
 tion weakens the body. Overwork destroys, and ab- 
 solute inertia, the abuse of rest, is sure to result in 
 death. So the wise man who would live must learn 
 to use these elements so as to get the most vital energy 
 out of them and sustain at the same time the least 
 possible amount of wear and tear. To thus develoj) 
 and keep the vital energies, the first and most im- 
 portant thing is a calm, hopeful, confident frame of 
 mind. A man resigned and happy in his station in 
 life will have time to breathe. There will be no 
 stress of soul to tax the mind and draw away and 
 use up the vital nerve power that ought to be used 
 in keeping the body in repair. This man who breathes 
 naturally and easily will have a good appetite and will 
 need no dainties and delicacies to tempt his taste. The 
 danger will be in taking more than the body needs. 
 TW\9. must be avoided, else there will be power wasted 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES P^OK DISEASES 187 
 
 in throwing out the unnecessary surpUis. Good vigor- 
 ous exercise will store up force in nerve, muscle, and 
 bone tissue. The mental elYort to care for and direct 
 properly the physical energies will help to keep the 
 brain in good condition. A moderate application of 
 cool bathing will keep the skin healthy. A natural 
 supply of food to keep the body well nourished and the 
 bowels open, enough pure water to keep every part 
 well moistened, these provisions will tend all the time 
 to a better state of health. And we must not forget l<) 
 keep the body comfortable, warm and happy. Vital 
 resistance to germ diseases and climatic changes will 
 thus be established and such a person will not likely 
 be affected by germs of tuberculosis, typhoid fever or 
 even cholera. Such a body has a fighting power which 
 the weak body does not possess. Anything which 
 makes the body stronger, prepares it to oppose the 
 inroads of any and all kinds of poison. It is violations 
 of natural law which make disease contagious. Re- 
 spect for the same law will make health c()ntagit)us. 
 barring hereditary tendencies. If one wants to bo 
 well he must pay the price, patient obedience. The 
 cure is not in a bottle, but in the vital organism and 
 its environment. The germicide may destroy germs 
 out of the body, but the power to overcome the effects 
 of the germ poison resides in the body. The work 
 of the great Hygieo-therapeutic Sanitariums that are 
 springing up all over the world is entircl\ comprised 
 in this work of developing vital resistance to disease 
 and in surgery. Hut the people may. if the}' will, do 
 much for themselves if they do not get in so great a 
 hurry that they cannot await the pace of natural pro- 
 cesses. 
 
188 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Cleanliness an Aid to Cure. 
 
 It would seem almost unnecessary to speak on this 
 subject. But to be safe we must say that the under- 
 clothing" should be changed often ; always before ac- 
 cumulations of waste matter have made it possible 
 for the poisons to be absorbed again into the body. 
 The daily sponge bath makes it possible to wear the 
 clothing .much longer than it would otherwise be safe, 
 and a little good soap is not to be forgotten as a part 
 of this equipment. Occupation, climate and charac- 
 ter of employment have much to do with frequency 
 of changes. 
 
 Rooms where the sick are confined must be kept 
 sweet and clean in every part from floor to ceiling, as 
 well as curtains and bedding. The sense of smell 
 should never detect danger. We have seen cobwebs 
 in a sanitarium, and in other places have had occasion 
 to remark that "This room smells like a hospital." 
 These are bad things for the ihvalids. Bedding hung 
 out daily in the sun for a few hours is sweetened and 
 freshened almost as much as if it went thru the laun- 
 dry. This daily airing makes it usable for a longer 
 time. Let the housewives catch on to this point. 
 Then they will sense anew the value of sunshine as a 
 germ destroyer and general purifier. 
 
 Surgery. 
 
 Surgery and its accompanying science of Asep- 
 sis and Antisepsis, is the most perfect of any branch 
 of the work done by the medical profession. It is a 
 supreme application of the Law of Physical Rest. It 
 has made very rapid strides in the last twenty-five 
 vears and has bcconie almost a fad among doctors. 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 189 
 
 Some surgeons have taken delight in every operation 
 they could get in removal of the ovaries. Others can- 
 not rest till they have got the other fellow's appendix, 
 no matter whether anything ails it or not. Many 
 times a crushed or injured hand has been amputated 
 in part or the whole, chiefly thru desire to "operate" 
 when a little surgery and the application of germi- 
 cides and hot water and the heating compress would 
 have restored the hand or foot to a fairly useful con- 
 dition. More than half the cutting that has been done 
 in abdominal surgery has not only been useless, but 
 an injury to the patients. This state of affairs has 
 been made possible by the people putting the medical 
 men where they can bury their mistakes, and by the 
 medical men exalting "cutting" above other curative 
 agents. The same recklessness in regard to human 
 life and prosperity prevails among a large portion of 
 medical men as prevails among stock speculators and 
 gamblers, who are willing to take great risks even 
 where they can see nothing clear before them. But 
 there are others among them who see and deplore this 
 state of affairs. The writer has not conjured these 
 statements. He has read and heard them from sound 
 clear-headed physicians, who are unable to stem the 
 current that has set so strongly in favor of cutting 
 first and considering afterward. We desire to speak 
 soberly and say just enough to turn the reader towaril 
 the conservative medical men who prefer to exhaust 
 other means of cure before cutting and to use it al- 
 ways as a last resort. Thousands of women have 
 been unsexed just to gratif\- a desire to "operate." 
 The one thing that makes surgery popular is that 
 "there is money in it." 
 
190 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 If medical men would train womankind into cor- 
 rect habits of dress and breathing, and proper water- 
 drinking, one fruitful source of their income would be 
 largely abbreviated. By far the larger amount of 
 surgery is performed for female troubles. There is 
 no good reason why they should require more surgery 
 than men. Medical men and the clergy will no doubt 
 have to answer for their failure even to make an efit'ort 
 to turn the more easily persuaded part of the race 
 back from the ways of ruin and death. The men in 
 these professions who make light of or treat with 
 indifference the subject of Hygiene are not worthy of 
 human confidence. There are plenty of them who 
 are doing this unless they have some patented hygienic 
 appliance that they are financially or otherwise inter- 
 ested in. The medical profession will continue to 
 reform itself just as fast as the public become intelli- 
 gent enough to demand the reform. The writer has 
 watched the changes that have taken place in the last 
 fifty years with intense interest. He has seen several 
 physicians converted to the Hygieo-Therapeutic 
 methods who got their start in reform thru seeing the 
 workings of water cure in the hands of some humble 
 country housewife. These are days of reform and 
 disaster betides the men who dare to stand in its way. 
 Let us honor surgery as a real science, but let us dep- 
 recate its use where hygienic measures can possibly 
 work out better results. And let us honor and appre- 
 ciate the men who exalt primary preventive agencies 
 above hasty surgical experimentation. 
 
 Above all, let the people find out how to live so that 
 they will not be likely to need serious surgical atten- 
 tion. To this end the most important matter is a 
 
PHYSICAL REMEDIES FOR DISEASES 191 
 
 reform at the waist line in the dress of woman-kind. 
 Let mothers stop and reflect until they sense the se- 
 riousness of the situation. There is a mighty incent- 
 ive to this kind of reform, even if only a few humble 
 quiet people are now demanding it. 
 
 Physicians and the clergy must in some way be 
 made to feel responsible for their influence in this 
 matter. A knowledge of how to live is of more im- 
 portance to the patient than the curiosity of experi- 
 mentation is to the doctor, and life is worth more to 
 the patient and her dependents than the fee is to the 
 doctor. 
 
 Words of Emphasis. 
 
 In this chapter we have just briefly outlined a few 
 of the very important things on the doing of which 
 life and health depend. We do not feel free to close 
 it without laying special emphasis on the use of some 
 of these measures. The questions of pure proper 
 food properly eaten ; pure air and the full and free 
 use of it; and pure water in abundance, are of the very 
 first importance. But others have said so much about 
 foods that we feel like emphasizing the neglected 
 things. So we say, practice the breathing exercises 
 faithfully and drink water for every ailment you may 
 have, unless the stomach is prolapsed or the heart 
 very weak; and keep a restful calm in your 
 soul. Don't try to have your own way. Lei 
 mental peace reign. Dismiss everything that dis- 
 turbs, or forget the disturbances. God's ways 
 are best. The full breathing exercises will make 
 vour lungs and digestive organs strong; and the water 
 will wash out many an ache and i)ain and with the air 
 
192 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 clear out the rubbish from the brain cells and enable 
 you to think as you have not done before. Total 
 abstinence from food for the over-fed and over-nour- 
 ished is a wonderful mind and soul invigorator. Pure 
 water will clear out the waste mineral salts from the 
 body and supple the arteries and veins and joints 
 quicker than you dare think, and there is nothing on 
 earth that will take its place. When you are just 
 wretched for want of air, and water, and rest, remem- 
 ber there are no substitutes. Wake up, wake up, my 
 fellow-man. Take as good care of your life and health 
 as you demand to be given to your automobile, or as 
 the good engineer gives to his locomotive, or as you 
 take of your watch. Keep your body clean inside and 
 out. No matter what ails you, or if you are well. 
 breathe, drink, exercise and cast out the worry; Then 
 you will not have to endure the infliction of many of 
 the other remedies. The pains that prod you are a 
 danger signal. Slow up. Find out what the matter 
 is. Guard the body from excesses. Champagne is 
 quite sure to bring on the real pain. Every right 
 physical action has its rewards, and every e\il physical 
 way has its punishment right here and now. If you 
 are in such a hurry to get rich that you can't take 
 time to live, God pity you ; what will you do with it all 
 after you are dead? There is such a thing as idolatry, 
 yes, heathenism, right in .\merica. Life here and now 
 and Life hereafter are the things that our Creator 
 makes His care. Let us learn to be in harmony with 
 Him and pay more attention to the things with which 
 He has environed us, on which we are dependent. 
 
CHAPTER IX, 
 Treatment of Diseases, 
 
 If, as we have abundantly shown, and as would 
 seem ahnost self-evident to all, life and health depend 
 on sunlight, air, water, food, clothing, exercise and 
 rest, then if these things are used correctly, where the 
 failure to use them properly has brought disease, it 
 follows that the vital energy in the body, if not too 
 greatly weakened by disease, may quite surely rally 
 and appropriate the results of their use, and bring 
 healing to the diseased parts. 
 
 Two of the most important things to the body, are 
 nutrition, — the proper preparation of good blood out 
 of food, air and water, and the distribution of the nu- 
 trition contained in the blood, to every organ, espe- 
 cially those that are weak and diseased. So to ani- 
 plify on this statement, we must encourage the stom- 
 ach, and bowels, liver and other digestive organs, and 
 the lungs, into as full a state of activity as possible, 
 by pure foods and 'drinks, proper exercises, applica- 
 tion of electricity, massage, sunlight, rest, the use of 
 heat and cold, by means of water and in other ways, 
 and then we can with these and other agencies help 
 the body to distribute its nourishment to the parts 
 where it is most needed. 
 
 We cannot in this little book take up and consider 
 the treatment of every phase of human ailment. \\ o 
 
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 are trying to give enough of typical treatment, both 
 in general and in particular, so that the intelligent 
 reader may make no serious mistakes in applying the 
 foregoing remedies to the following and other similar 
 cases of difficulty. Study the principle involved every 
 time. The true method will dawn on you more and 
 more. Never get frightened, but do all you can to 
 nip trouble in the bud. We are also desirous that you 
 should know that there are places where these prin- 
 ciples are being used successfully. 
 
 Perhaps we ought to apologize for the order in 
 which the diseases are arranged in this chapter, but 
 the fact is we did not know in just what order they 
 might present themselves in the experience of the 
 reader. We have, however, managed to keep the dis- 
 eases of nutrition foremost in the list, and we think 
 we have done fairly well in doing this. It matters 
 very little in what order we consider the various sick- 
 nesses of humanity, provided we learn their causes 
 and the best remedies. We shall surely have to meet 
 them in ourselves as they come, unless we conquer the 
 principles of Hygiene ; and we shall always find plenty 
 of suffering ones who are slothful about learning the 
 science of prevention, who will be overtaken by suffer- 
 ing, just in the order they trample the Natural Laws 
 under their feet. 
 
 Dyspepsia. 
 
 Begin treatment by applying the Law of Rest. 
 Never overwork the body. Never eat when ex- 
 hausted. Leave out of your diet everything but 
 one or two simple foods, that you know by expe- 
 rience set well, or set the best on the stomach. This 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 195 
 
 will begin to give the stomach rest. Well-cooked 
 browned rice with a little cream, and twice baked 
 bread sliced thin and slightly browned in the oven and 
 eaten dry, will make an excellent diet for several days. 
 (See "Sterilizing Bread," Chapter X.) Add a little soft 
 boiled egg for some of the meals. Chew, chew, chew, 
 don't rinse your food down. Drink nothing at your 
 meals and for two or three hours after. See that 
 every mouthful of food is thoroughly mixed with 
 saliva. Oftentimes the driest food chewed the longest 
 is the only remedy for obstinate cases. The whole 
 wheat or corn flake or oat flake browned and eaten 
 dry are excellent. Pufifed rice and wheat are all right. 
 Unleavened bread made of cornmeal, w-heatmeal or 
 oatmeal is the best food to experiment with. (See 
 Crinklets.) Wheat, or rye slightly browned and 
 cracked in a mill and cooked for three or four hour.'- 
 are first-class foods. Remember to eat one or two 
 things and chew them till the saliva makes them so 
 liquid that you can't help but swallow. This is called 
 Fletcherizing. By haste the epicure loses the ver} 
 thing which he is most anxious to secure. The flavor 
 of the food is all extracted only by deliberation in 
 eating. The fellow who said he took after both his 
 father and mother in his table habits, was a good 
 sample of the average American. W hen asked to 
 explain, he said: "Father ate very fast and mother 
 ate a long time." Sometimes it is best if the stomach 
 is badly tired out to give it a few days of absolute 
 rest, using, nothing but water. Then begin on a ver\' 
 small quantity of something that smells good when it 
 is cooking, provided it is within the class of foods 
 mentioned, and gradually grow into eating, l)ut never, 
 
196 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AKD HEALTH 
 
 again we say, rinse the food down with any kind lU" 
 drink. Appetite is not to be fully trusted. Patience 
 and perseverance for weeks will be necessary. 
 
 Now put with this diet the simple system of Vibra- 
 tory Breathing. This is just as important as the diet 
 — if not more so. Practice a short time before meals 
 and soon after, and use with it Forced Exhalation 
 and Inhalation three or four times during the day, say 
 five minutes at a time. Take some lessons in lauiih- 
 ing for a change. Caution, don't overdo, but be per- 
 sistent in moderate eflforts and grow into breathing. 
 
 Another point must not be overlooked. Enough 
 water must be taken to keep the blood up to a full 
 state of tluidity. This means about eight to ten 
 glasses per day, half a glass at a time; some will 
 l)ear a glass. Hot water half an hour before 
 meals and cold water on retiring at night. 
 But drink nothing for three hours after each 
 meal. Plenty of water will sustain life a long 
 time. Distilled or pure soft water only should be 
 used ; but hard water is better than none, only boil 
 and let it settle. If the digestion is slow heat should 
 be applied over the stomach for three-fourths of an 
 hour after each meal. If the Doctor says you have 
 "hyperchloridia" — too much hydrochloric acid — then 
 wear a large cold water rubber bottle from the pit of 
 the stomach toward the left side just at the edge of 
 the short ril)s, for three-fourths of an hour after each 
 meal. Put it next to the skin. 
 
 You may have a case of trouble where milk agrees 
 best. Then sterilize it and take it thru a very fine 
 tube, one that will require sufficient effort to draw on 
 the salivary glands and thorougiily insalivate the milk. 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 197 
 
 While we are passing see that the baby's nursing 
 bottle does not allow the milk to flow very freely. 
 Many babies suflFer with indigestion because the milk 
 is taken so fast that the digestive fluids are not thor- 
 oughly mixed with it. Milk taken by a calf in the 
 strictly natural way curds in strings in the stomach, 
 while that which is drank curds in a solid mass. The 
 calf that nurses the cow looks sleek and if full of 
 antics. The hair on the calf that drinks the same 
 warm fresh milk turns every which way, and he does 
 not appear near so happy as the other one. A gentle- 
 man who was the owner of more than four hundred 
 milch cows, narrated the above facts as matters of hi.'^ 
 personal observation in the rearing and killing of 
 calves, covering a period of twenty-five years. This 
 is purely the difference between thorough mingling 
 of the milk with the digestive fluids and not having 
 them thoroughly commingled with it. 
 
 Last, but just as important as all that has gone 
 before, quit all fretting and worrying. Save your 
 nervous energies to get well. Stop kicking and 
 squirming and hunting up new symptoms, and count- 
 ing over your old ones. Choose cheerful society and 
 laugh on every possible occasion. Make fun of your 
 victuals if you can't get anything else to laugh about. 
 Invite some humorous friend to come and see you. 
 This is the time when "A merry heart doeth good like 
 a medicine." Don't trouble yourself with new taxing- 
 business plans. Cheerful light einployment will be 
 good for you. Attend faithfully to the business of 
 getting well and do not be anxious to get back to the 
 old ways of living. Once you are well, you will be a 
 wise man if you lose friendship for those enslaving 
 
198 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 appetites that pulled yon down. There is no place so 
 good as a good Sanitarium to get well of dyspepsia. 
 "It takes a steady hand to lead the elephant by the 
 ear." 
 
 Constipation. 
 
 This is a most common disease of nutrition. A 
 druggist once said to me: "Three-fourths of all the 
 medicines I sell are cathartics." If this trouble ac- 
 companies 3-our dyspepsia, add to what we have said, 
 if the stomach will take it, one meal of fruit daily with 
 raw or cooked wheat flakes or oat meal. Drink tlic 
 extra amount of water. Make up for the past if you 
 can. As soon as your stomach will begin to bear it 
 drink a glass of cold water on rising. If the stomach 
 will not take fruit, or if it will, use a half a cup of 
 wheat bran, pour boiling water over it at noon, at 
 night eat it with cream and a little salt, or eat it next 
 morning if you prefer.- Work the bowels with your 
 own hands, or take a course in Massage and physical 
 training from some operator, and use Diaphragm 
 Gymnastics faithfully. You may tone up the lower 
 bowel with eight or ten cool enemas taken every other 
 day at a regular time, early morning is best, beginning 
 at 90 degrees and work down two degrees colder each 
 time. A pint and a half of water is enough. If you 
 are weak and bloodless begin at 96 degrees and work 
 down. Don't hurry the enema in taking, and don't 
 hold it more than ten minutes. If it all absorbs take 
 another one, and drink more at once. It stands to 
 reason that the body cannot dry up if it is kept well 
 irrigated. Plenty of cream, or nuts well chewed, or 
 oli\c or cottonseed oil, or green foods as celery, let- 
 
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 tuce, raw cabbage, and cooked greens of various kinds 
 are the best for this trouble if the stomach will bear 
 them. There are very few cases that cannot take the 
 bran as before suggested. The sum of suggestion for 
 constipation is, plenty of moistvire in the body, bulk 
 as well as nutrition in food, and abdominal exercise 
 by breathing and manipulation. If the first two weeks 
 does not bring relief repeat the course of cool enemas 
 and stick to the other suggestion faithfully. There is 
 no use getting tied up to enemas or physic. They 
 never effect a cure. They may be used on rare occa- 
 sions under forced circumstances, but they are a dam- 
 age if they become a habit. The enema is safer and 
 quicker and does less harm than physic, but should be 
 used only when compulsion demands it. One wdio is 
 subject to spells of constipation when travelling should 
 carry with them some Cascara Sagrada Pellets. The}- 
 are the least harmful, and very convenient. 
 
 Piles. 
 
 Piles are little tumors in and around the end of the 
 bowel. They are generally caused by constipation, 
 irritating foods and hard heavy labor. They, will yield 
 at once to rest, bland foods such as will relieve con- 
 stipation, and applications of hot water. This last is 
 best accomplished with a Rectal Irrigator, a sipli'Mi 
 syringe hose and a four or five-gallon pail set up or 
 hung up three or four feet above the closet seat. The 
 Irrigator permits a stream to enter the bowel about 
 three to five inches and run out at once, without any 
 water being retained by the bowel. The application 
 should be continued for thirty minutes, having the 
 water at 112^ to 116° or even 118 \ Repeat three to 
 
200 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 six nights in succession. There is no surer cure for 
 any aihnent than this is for piles taken early. In 
 chronic cases it seldom fails to give such relief that 
 an operation becomes unnecessary. Always try this 
 faithfully before submitting to any operation, no mat- 
 ter how wise in your opinion, the man who advises it. 
 It will make the operation less dangerous to say the 
 least. 
 
 Acute Catarrh of the Bowels. 
 
 This disease interferes seriously with nutrition. Rest 
 and stop eating for a day or two. Drink two to six 
 cups of hot peppermint or spearmint tea. Hot cinna- 
 mon water, one part essence to ten of water, in small 
 quantities is an important remedy. Get this fluid 
 down as quickly as possible. Take a full hot enema, 
 then apply heat all over the abdomen by means of 
 rubber hot water bottles, hot griddles or any conven- 
 ient means. Hot fomentations over the entire abdo- 
 men are about the best thing. If long continued heat 
 through the night is wanted the hot water rubber bot- 
 tles are the best. An excellent antiseptic is camphor 
 gum the size of a wheat grain, taken every hour or two 
 in severe cases, for the first few hours ; after that once 
 in three or six hours. Do not take more than six or 
 eight of these pellets the first day, and after that less. 
 This is a safe remedy. If you are subject to such 
 attacks when travelling and have severe pain, you had 
 better take along a bottle of Sun Cholera Mixture 
 tablets. These are not a patent medicine. The New 
 York Sun published the formula for this remedy sev- 
 eral times annually for a good many years. The 
 writer has been acquainted with this prescription for 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 2U1 
 
 over thirty years. They are a potent remedy where 
 the more rational home remedies are not accessible. 
 Rest is very important in these cases. Keep quiet in 
 a horizontal position. Keep drinking freely of pepper- 
 mint or cinnamon water or any hot antiseptic drinks 
 to keep the water supply good in the system. Repeat 
 the second day if it continues. 
 
 Chronic Catarrh of the Bowels. 
 
 This is a very distressing and serious disease of 
 nutrition. The best remedy is what is known as the 
 grape cure, combined with alternations of heat and cold 
 to the abdomen and a hot enema each night just before 
 retiring. Use two quarts of water if possible, as hot 
 as can be borne. Take it slowly. The grape cure 
 consists first and originally of living on grapes and 
 nothing else for two or three months, discarding the 
 seeds and skins. This means strictly antiseptic diet 
 until all the germs of the catarrh are fully destroyed 
 from the body and the tissues have fully regained their 
 healthy tone. In the absence of grape juice any kind 
 of fruit juice may be used. Lemon juice, diluted and 
 orange, apple, berry or cherry juices are best. Avoid 
 ordinary sugar as far as possible in this trouble. 
 These other fruits are almost equally as good as 
 grapes, and by having variety it is more satisfactory 
 to the ])atient. Buttermilk or kumyss makes an ex- 
 cellent morning meal taken slowly all alone. The 
 f|uantity of juice taken should be from three to five 
 (|uarts daily. All liquid foods should be taken thru a 
 fine tube so as to require some suction. This will in- 
 sure a full flow of saliva and aid greatly in the prog- 
 ress of the case. The applications of heat and c<ild to 
 
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202 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 the abdomen and an occasional extra hot enema, say 
 every other day, accelerates the cure. No one ever 
 starved to death on this cure. They sometimes lose 
 a little flesh, but we have the highest authorities in the 
 world recommending it for these cases. 
 
 Arthritis Deformans, also Miscalled Deforming 
 Rheumatism. 
 
 The same diet we have just recommended for 
 chronic catarrh of the bowels, is the best for this class 
 of cases. Couple with this diet cool mitten friction 
 graduated to the patient's temperature sense taken in 
 a warm room beginning say at 80 degrees and working 
 down to about 60, and later perhaps a little lower, with 
 faradic electricity and massage to the joints, are the 
 remedies which will give relief in this hitherto incur- 
 able malady. The nurse should be several days in 
 lowering the baths from 90 to 60 degrees. This is a 
 disease of nutrition. The food ferments in the ali- 
 mentary canal and these ferments work their w'ay into 
 the blood, and thence to the cartileges and ligaments. 
 They usually settle in the joints of the hands first, then 
 the bone-making material is deposited faster in some 
 parts than it can be used, and this causes the joints to 
 grow out of shape. It is in no way related to rheum- 
 atic troubles. The nature of this ailment has not yet 
 been fully grasped, and very few l:now the cure which 
 can only be thoroughly accomplished in the early 
 stages, r.et alone yeast bread and all forms of sugar 
 entirely, except that found in the fruits. 
 
 Rheumatism. 
 
 Rheumatism is caused by too much waste, largely 
 uric acid in the blood. This is what the medical men 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 203 
 
 say. When the patient is exposed to cold and wet and 
 overwork — these waste poisons settle in one joint or 
 another, usually two corresponding joints. Then thru 
 a heroic effort at relief on the part of the nervous 
 system these poisons are dislodged from one set of 
 joints and settle in another. The disease is called self- 
 limited, that is, the patient will throw the poisons out 
 in from two to four weeks if the patient is given rest, 
 kept warm and well irrigated. These poisons accumu- 
 late especially from flesh-eating, over-eating, and tiie 
 use of tea and coffee and stimulants which hinder the 
 digestion. Too much good food often fills the body 
 with more waste material than the depurating organs 
 can readily dispose of, and this may become a cause 
 of rheumatism or other serious disease. Damp, cool 
 climates are more conducive to rheumatism because 
 they stimulate appetite, but do not induce perspira- 
 tion. Leave out the causes as far as possible and 
 adopt the diet suggested for dyspepsia, only be slight- 
 ly more liberal, and most important drink quantities 
 of water beyond all former calculation, up to ten or 
 twelve glasses daily, some hot and some cold. Just 
 keep the blood and lymph at a maximum state of 
 fluidity so that the uric acid cannot crystalize and 
 the blood thicken with the fever. This will cause 
 activity of the skin and kidneys and throw out the 
 waste. Use hot and cold application to the joints in 
 trouble; follow with massage, and close up with a 
 heating compress for the night over these joints. 
 This method will make the blood flow freely, move the 
 waste matters out of the diseased parts, and help to 
 throw them out of the system. Look after the breath- 
 ing, tnke sunbaths, and in dark weather use thi- cloc- 
 
204 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 trie bath. I'se the warm l:)lanket pack to give the 
 patient a good thorough sweat if yon do not have ac- 
 cess to the electric light bath. Any form of gentle 
 prolonged sweating will prove to be a great help to 
 shorten the duration of the trouble. Keep the body 
 warmer than usual with good flannel garments. This 
 will keep the skin active and full of blood. One half 
 of this treatment will soon niake a commiMi case of 
 rheumatism a thing of the past. 
 
 Neuralgia. 
 
 This trouble is due practically to the same causes 
 as rheumatism, only the waste poison settles in the 
 fine blood vessels of the nerves instead of around the 
 joints. While this disease has been called "a prayer 
 of the nerves for food" it might more justly be called 
 a prayer of the nerves for purer, freer circulation. If 
 the blood was not too thick uric acid crystals would 
 not form and other poisons accumulate. If a person 
 has plenty of nourishing food and a fairly good di- 
 gestion, unless the blood is kept as fluid as it ought 
 to be the nutrition will not be carried to the parts 
 where wanted and the waste is liable to thicken and 
 stop in the nerves. Keep the blood flowing freely, 
 and neuralgia will pass on unless chronic neuritis 
 (nerve inflammation) has set in. Hot water drinking 
 in immense (juantitios with a little herb flavoring, or 
 lemon, thrown in with alternate hot and cold appli- 
 cations and massage, chiefl}' deep stroking backward 
 along the line of the nerve. ]>egin lightly at first, 
 gradually deepening the work until the ])ain is relieved. 
 Electricity is of great value in this trouble as well as 
 rheumatism. These are the all im])ortant remedies. 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 205 
 
 Apply the other general remedies for rheumatism and 
 relief will soon come. Neuritis needs a course of san- 
 itarium treatments. It shoidd not be ncijleotcd for a 
 day. 
 
 Diabetes. 
 
 This disease is characterized hy too great a tiow 
 of urine usually containing an excess of sugar. The 
 skin is diy and husky and the sugar is not used uj) 
 in the muscles for force as it should be. it is sure 
 to wear out the patent unless checked in its early 
 stages. The best remedies are cool and cold sponge 
 baths and cold mitten frictions with a Turkish towel 
 mitten daily, and salt glows about twice a week. Use 
 oil inunction after e\ery treatment. ^Massage and 
 Swedish movements should be given dail}'. I'^or food 
 use grains and fruits and green vegetables, with cream 
 and milk. Use the ordinary amount of soft water and 
 no tea or coffee. It is wise not to take any cane sugar 
 unless there is a strong craving fc)r it. The writer 
 heard one good physician vouch for a cure of a case 
 of sugar diabetes by the use of coarse brown sugar, 
 giving the patient all she wanted to eat in connection 
 with cold baths. This is not a disease that can be 
 cured by diet alone. Stimulate the skin and muscles 
 as we have indicated in the early stages and you will 
 be likely to check the disease and possibly work the 
 bodily resistance to the point where the patient will 
 hold his own for years. No medicine will ha\e any 
 curative effect whatever. Tf the patient is ordinarily 
 strong and full fleshed he should take hold of gym- 
 nasium or ordinary hard work every day till he is 
 quite weary, beside the cool bathing and some mas- 
 
206 ESSEiNTIAIvS TO L,IFE AND HEALTH 
 
 sage. There are other remedies but these are the im- 
 portant ones. Better to know a few things and do 
 them faithfully than to know everything and do noth- 
 ing well. 
 
 Best of all in these cases, make haste, as soon as 
 the disease is known, to some good institution where 
 the principles of this system are understood and stay 
 until the progress of the disease is checked. Medi- 
 cines will not help this disease. 
 
 Bright' s Disease. 
 
 Bright's Disease is an inflammation and degenera- 
 tion of the kidneys. The acute form may be treated 
 at home with gentle but thorough sweating and long 
 continued applications of heat over the kidneys; plenty 
 of soft water to drink, and grains, fruits and butter- 
 milk taken sparingly for a few days. In taking the 
 patient out of the sweat the precaution of cool ap- 
 plications and oil inunction should always be observed 
 and the patient sl\ould be kept specially warm all the 
 time. If one has the chronic form and casts have 
 begun to appear in the urine, he had better get to a 
 good sanitarium as soon as possible where they un- 
 derstand and practice the principles set forth in this 
 volume. Delays are dangerous. No drug medicines 
 will accomplish anything for these cases. The disease 
 is too serious for home treatment until the patient has 
 taken the necessary lessons and has secured a good 
 well trained nurse to watch over and care for him. 
 
 Bladder Trouble. 
 
 Water, pure water to drink; bland foods without 
 irritating condiments; grains, especially rice and bar- 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 207 
 
 ley, and mild fruits ; sweating and skin stimulation by 
 friction with cool baths and inunctions and hot fo- 
 mentations and heating compresses over the bladder; 
 hot douches and enemas; these, in brief, are the rem- 
 edies. Distilled water drank freely, and heat and 
 cold applied over the bladder and to the perineum, if 
 persisted in, will cure chronic cases. 
 
 If the patient has stone in the bladder he may prob- 
 ably need an operation for its removal. Once this is 
 done and pure, soft or distilled water is adopted and 
 drank freely, the trouble will soon cease. This is no 
 dream. Nor is it a fine-spun theory. If the water 
 drank is free from calcareous matter, there will be 
 none to form into calculi in the bladder or kidneys. 
 And I want to assure you, reader, that there is no drug 
 that you can safely swallow that will have the least 
 influence in dissolving these calculi. It is scientific- 
 ally refined cruelty to leave the people in ignorance 
 of these great principles of cure, and let them go on 
 doping themselves with medicines. 
 
 A case recently came to the writer's knowledge, 
 where the patient, a man of 65 years, had had an 
 irritable bladder for many years, having lived most 
 of his life in a hard-water country. The urethra was 
 exceedingly sensitive and the prostate was enlarged so 
 that in spite of a severe surgical operation the use of 
 the catheter had been a necessity twice daily for some 
 three years. There was a most peculiar griping spasm 
 accompanying every effort to urinate. The patient 
 was advised to live on bland foods, such as were free 
 from uric acid and other irritants; to drink distilled 
 water freely, and every night wear a rubber hot water 
 bottle up between the limbs against the perineum. 
 
208 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 The results were very gratifying. In three weeks the 
 catheter was abandoned ; and in six weeks the water 
 began to pass when the patient was asleep. Then the 
 patient was advised in addition to what was already 
 being done to bathe the forks of the thighs thoroughly 
 every morning with very cold water. After three 
 months the patient proclaimed himself very happy 
 over his condition, and at the end of eight months he 
 wrote that he was still improving, not having been so 
 well before in twenty years. 
 
 My friend along in years, if you are threatened with 
 this distressing affliction better for you, far better, if 
 you try these simple natural remedies rather than re- 
 sort to medicines. And ye young men, forestall the 
 future troubles before they meet you like an armed 
 host. 
 
 Heart Ti'ouble. 
 
 Most of the so-called heart affections are due to bad 
 conditions in the stomach, — indigestion and fermenta- 
 tion. Of course these will pass as soon as the dyspep- 
 sia is relieved. But there are real heart troubles, like 
 enlargement and valvular diseases, not to go into all 
 the minutiae. Xow in order to appreciate what will 
 most help the heart, we must take in a few facts of 
 physiology. 
 
 There is poured out of tlie healthy body daily 
 through the skin about one pint of insensible perspira- 
 tion; about three pints of urine; about a pint goes 
 out in the breath witli an imknown (|uantity passing 
 out through the bowels, making in all, it is safe to say, 
 not less than three quarts of fluid poured out daily, 
 and this is all taken out of the bloorl. Nothing is 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 20',» 
 
 plainer than that this loss of fluid must be constantly 
 and evenl}- renewed, and there is no way to do it but 
 to put the water l^ack into the blood through the 
 stomach. 
 
 The blood is the vehicle for conveying all the nutri- 
 tion to every part of the body. Now there are many 
 blood passages in the body especially about the joints 
 and the skin of the bones, and in the brain and ner\es 
 and even in the skin that are much smaller than fine 
 hair. It is a perfectly plain proposition that if the 
 blood is allowed to thicken for want of water the heart 
 will have to work proportionately harder. So if you 
 want first to prevent the heart from being overworked, 
 or to give relief to a disabled heart, keep the blood 
 supply clean by a reasonable use of good pure foods, 
 and keep it in a maximum state of fluidity, but do 
 not swallow large quantities of water at once. To sus- 
 tain maximum fluidity of the blood in a feeble case 
 of heart disease will require much less water than 
 with a person in ordinary health. Such a patient eats 
 much less and takes much less exercise and breathes 
 less, hence there is less waste going on in the body 
 and less water is needed to keep the blood supply in 
 a supple condition. Xo person with a weak heart 
 should take so much water that it will ooze into the 
 tissues and compress the smaller blood vessels. The 
 principle of water drinking is sound. It must be used 
 with wisdom in all cases. The ordinary case may 
 take a half a glass of water e\ cry half hour, exccjit 
 two hours following meals, and a full glass on rising 
 and retiring. This will prevent the blood from being 
 irritating to the vahes of the heart, and will enable it 
 to do its work with the least possible amount of wear 
 
210 ESSENTIAIvS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 and tear. The writer has seen cases of what were 
 pronounced to be valvular heart disease, by first-class 
 physicians, completely relieved by this plan, so that 
 the patients became unconscious of any heart dis- 
 turbance whatever. Of course the diet was regulated. 
 
 Points. Simple, pure foods and from three to six 
 pints of fluid in the food and drink daily are the first 
 of all remedies. Then restful employment void of all 
 excitement and worry with no incentives to violent 
 exercise. A happy, cheerful, hopeful frame of mind. 
 Rest within the soul as well as rest for the body. Such 
 are the remedies for serious heart difficulties. It is 
 well, also, to add that during cool weather diligent 
 effort should be maintained to keep the feet and hands 
 warm, and thus save an extra effort of the heart in 
 pushing the blood through the cold extremities and 
 helping to warm it as it returns to the heart. Last, 
 but very important, keep at low altitudes, the nearer 
 sea level the better. This will save the heart a great 
 deal of extra labor. 
 
 Those who are troubled with heart disease, or are 
 in a run down weakened condition should never rise 
 suddenly from a reposing posture to a standing posi- 
 tion. If very badly troubled rise on the elbow and 
 slowly come to a sitting posture. Then after a mo- 
 ment of deliberation rise slowly to the feet. This gives 
 the blood flow a chance to balance itself and the heart 
 time to rally for its extra work. It takes at least one- 
 sixth more energy to circulate the blood when stand- 
 ing than when lying down. 
 
TREATMENT OP DISEASES 211 
 
 Fainting. 
 
 Fainting is caused by the blood suddenly receding 
 from the brain leaving the brain comparatively empty. 
 Lay the patient out flat on the backk and sponge the 
 face and chest with very cold water. Rest for an hour 
 or two afterward and drink a fair supply of hot water 
 and some agreeable fruit juice. This is all that is 
 necessary for the emergency. The cure lies in im- 
 proving the general health by the various means in- 
 dicated in this work. (See Laws of Breathing and 
 Drinking) 
 
 Hay Fever and Asthma. 
 
 The relationship between these diseases is that hay 
 fever usually leads to asthma. Hay fever being, as is 
 supposed by many physicians, a germ disease and 
 troublesome only for a brief period of the year, it pays 
 the one afflicted with it to change, if possible, to some 
 other more favorable locali*:y. A small island far out 
 from land, or a high mountain region or a forest. There 
 is no cure but prevention. Relief may be had perhaps 
 by a germicide or relaxing inhalation. 
 
 There are three forms of asthma. One purely 
 spasmodic, caused by fear or other emotions. Another 
 caused by the after effects of hay fever or bronchitis, 
 and the other by over-eating. The last two are very 
 closely related, and the former very rare. This dis- 
 tressing malady is as much a climatic disease as any- 
 thing. There is a large portion of the mountain cli- 
 mates of the world, especially the more arid regions, 
 where it is little known. Those who suffer from it 
 cannot all change climate. A few things, however, 
 may be done which will greatly mitigate the suffer- 
 
212 ESSENTIAIvS TO LIFK AND HEALTH 
 
 iiigs of the asthmatic. A rigidly abstemious diet, be- 
 inc careful not to eat more than two or three articles 
 at a meal, and be sure they harmonize. 
 
 This is the way people treat a horse that has the 
 asthma. He receives clean hay and oats in very mod- 
 erate quantities, and pure water to drink and he is 
 never allowed to distend his stomach with food, even 
 free green grass. It is important to keep the gas from 
 forming in the stomach. Each must find out for him- 
 self what single things or combinations set best on 
 the stomach. (See suggestion on the Sterilizing of 
 Bread in chapter 10.) Wheat and fruit or any single 
 srrain and some fruit ; rice and a little cream and a 
 moderate quantity of beans ; or peas and vegetables ; 
 these are all good combinations. There are dozens of 
 others. Buttermilk alone makes an excellent meal 
 taken in reasonable quantity. 
 
 Cool sponge bathing daily is a great help. It keeps 
 the blood from centering to the bronchial tubes, throat 
 and head. Quick relief from paroxyms of asthma may 
 be obtained by putting a hot water rubber bottle to 
 the spine just below the neck and an ice bag over the 
 bronchi in front next to the skin. This works like 
 magic in either form of asthma. You needn't keep 
 the ice bag on more than fifteen minutes. We have 
 seen a man eighty years old who had been severely 
 afflicted with asthma for forty years relieved of his 
 troubles so that he woidd go for six months without 
 a paroxysm ; just by simple diet, sponge bathing, mas- 
 sage, and for rpiick relief a relaxing inhalation instead 
 of Ileal ;!nd ice as recommended above. 
 
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 Hiccough, 
 
 Hiccough is caused by a spasm or contraction of the 
 circular or sphincter muscle at the upper end of the 
 stomach. The jerking- of the esophagus or meat pipe 
 is the effort to relieve the spasm. No matter what 
 the exciting cause the best remedy is the swallowing 
 of very small sips of hot water or even cool water 
 right along steady for a half a minute to a minute. 
 It is the act of swallowing that gives relief more than 
 the thing swallowed. Another remedy which should 
 be tried with this is breathing out the breath as far 
 as possible and holding it out as long as you can. 
 then breathe in all you can using the diaphragm and 
 hold it in. Repeat for two or three minutes if neces- 
 sarv. The meat pipe passes thru the diaphragm just 
 above where the spasm is and in this act of breathing 
 the diaphragm pulls the meat pipe l)ack and forth and 
 stretches the muscles of the sphincter in another di- 
 rection. This relieves the spasm. A sudden surprise 
 will often stimulate the action of the solar plexus, and 
 this will almost always change the circulation in the 
 sphincter and give relief by causing it to relax. 
 
 Epilepsy. 
 
 This is a paroxysm of the nervous system. Evi- 
 dently caused by poisons in the blood which irritate 
 the nerves. Thousands of cases have been greatly 
 relieved and some cured of the recurrence of the 
 spasms by adopting a strictly severe vegetarian diet, 
 and limiting themselves to the least possible amount 
 of food which will sustain nature. We ha\c seen the 
 paroxysms in a five-year-old hoy cut down from four 
 or five a day, to one or tw(j a month by clianging him 
 
214 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 fr(ini a liberal six-nieal-a-day flesh diet to a three- 
 meal limited vegetarian plan. This was accomplished 
 in less than two months time. But this is just the 
 one thing' that the epileptic hates — being limited in the 
 gratification of his desires. The mental stubborn- 
 ness to have and eat any kind and all they want is 
 the thing that stands in the way of relief for these 
 cases. Cut down the free use of salt and condiments 
 and limit the amount of food to the fare necessities. 
 Not all cases can be cured, but most can be greatly 
 relieved. In rare cases an operation at the base ot 
 the brain gives relief. 
 
 Night Terrors and Nightmare. 
 
 This is due mostly to indigestion or slow digestion 
 caused by eating heavy suppers of meat, especially 
 pork, and other foods difficult of digestion. It is 
 somewhat akin to epilepsy, a sort of a spasm of the 
 muscles. If flesh is not good for kittens and puppies 
 it certainly cannot be good for children. Remedy, 
 feed lightly at night on rice and milk, or bread and 
 milk, or a small amount of cereal and fruit. Nobody 
 ever suflfered any loss by saving the heavy foods for 
 breakfast and the midday meal. Light suppers will 
 in a few days prepare the way for a good appetite for 
 breakfast, especially fruit suppers. People must leave 
 out the flesh of animals from their food if they would 
 have peace within the vital domain. The body when 
 resting at night should have little to do but take care 
 of the material prepared thruout the previous day. 
 It should not be compelled to do much in preparing 
 large quantities of new material. 
 
 Bed Wetting. — This is a most distressing affliction 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 215 
 
 and very humiliating to the child after he has come to 
 the years of understanding. It costs an immense 
 amount of care and labor for the mother or nurse. 
 So it is worth while to diligently persist for two or 
 three months if necessary, in a course of simple treat- 
 ment. The cause is a weakness or lack of tone in the 
 "shut off," or sphincter muscle in the urethra, or outlet 
 of the bladder. Eating freely of those things which 
 make the urine irritating like meats and condiments 
 and candies and tea and coffee and using stronger 
 drinks are exciting causes. The free use of water late 
 in the day will tend to induce the trouble. 
 
 The remedy is cool or cold application to the peri- 
 neum. Bathe between the limbs close up to the body 
 with cold water for two to five minutes night and 
 morning. In females, syringe a little cold water into 
 the vagina for two or three inches so as to get the 
 water as far back as possible on the urethra. This 
 use of cold water is a very important remedy. A 
 most necessarv form of exercise is Iving on the back 
 and lifting up the limbs as nearly straight as possible. 
 Then work the legs on the thigh joints twisting and 
 training them in every direction. Do this for five to 
 ten minutes three times a day. This will put strength 
 and tone into every muscle in and about the thighs. 
 If the child is old enough to understand teach him 
 every time he makes water during the day to shut il 
 off two or three times. This voluntary effort will 
 exercise the sphincter muscles and make them 
 stronger so they will hold when he is asleep. Give no 
 drinks or fluid foods after four o'clock. Do all you 
 can to make the child sleep on its sides instead of the 
 
216 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 back. Don't scold or punish. The cliild has cnou.<jh 
 to endure already. 
 
 Catarrh. 
 
 This unpleasant disease is caused by overaction 
 of the mucous membranes of the nose, throat and 
 bronchi, from two causes, first, too much blood in the 
 parts; second, i;erm irritations. By long continued 
 exposure to cold, the blood is driven out of the skin. 
 The skin becomes inactive and the internal organs, 
 including the membranes, are compelled to do some 
 of the work of the skin. Stimulant foods and drinks 
 also call the blood in, and the only thing the body can 
 do to protect itself, is to pour out mucus into the throat 
 and nasal passages to allay the fever and drought 
 which the congestion and germs are producing. The 
 germs would do little harm if the temperature of these 
 passages had not been raised above normal by the 
 congestion. 
 
 The most natural thing to do for such a condition 
 is to adopt a plain diet of grains, fruits and vegetables, 
 with some eggs, cream and milk. The less sugar and 
 condiment and stimulants and fat meats the better. 
 Then see that the body is well clothed so as to keep 
 the circulation to the surface. Use cold sponge baths, 
 cold mitten friction, dry towel or flesh brush rubs, 
 oil rubs, and everything to make the skin active and 
 keep it active and warm and prevent taking cold. 
 A warm equable climate will help wonderfully, in 
 many cases working a cure where nothing else but 
 change of climate is done. In a year or two these 
 remedies will change conditions, so that a bad case of 
 catarrh will be almost, if not quite forgotten. If t\ie 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 217 
 
 case is so bad as to be offensively foul, hot saline nasal 
 douches will be a necessity. Take two teaspoonfuls 
 of salt to a quart of water ; use fountain syringe, mak- 
 ing the water as hot as can be borne, hanging the 
 syringe a foot or two above the head. Place tube in 
 one nostril, close the mouth and let the water pass 
 out of the other nostril. Same for both nostrils. Then 
 stopping one nostril with the thumb, let the water 
 pass into the nostril and out of the mouth ; same 
 for other nostril, changing back and forth two or three 
 times. This should be used twice a day for several 
 days or weeks. It is best to use this in all cases 
 before the foul condition prevails. Aluch more can 
 be done for severe cases at a good institution. Cases 
 of catarrh should be looked after early, for they lead 
 directly to one form of deafness, and to consumption. 
 1>ronchitis, catarrh of the stomach, liver and bowels; 
 and indirectly, some good physicians say, to gall- 
 stones. Chronic catarrh is the result of repeatedly 
 taking cold, hence study how not to take cold. Some 
 cases will never get well until they have a permanent 
 change of climate. 
 
 Hook Worm Disease. 
 
 Hook worms have been known in the tropical and 
 subtropical portions of the old world for a long time. 
 They have been found in dogs and sheep and in man- 
 kind. It remained for Dr. Charles Wardwell Stiles. 
 Chief of the Division of Zoology of the United States 
 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, to dem- 
 onstrate their existence as a cause of much of the 
 misery and wretchedness of the poor ^leople in our 
 Southern States. Dr. Stiles has shown beyond all 
 
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218 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 question that what has been called "pernicious ma- 
 laria," "the bloat," "the big lazy," and many other 
 similarly suggestive names ; and which gave the people 
 that cadaverous look, "that yellow wrinkled waxy 
 skin," and those melancholy, expressionless counte- 
 nances so common among the poor people of the 
 South; is all due to the hook worm. Dr. Stiles esti- 
 mates that about 68 per cent of the farms in the 
 South are infected, and that at least 20 per cent of the 
 poorer population are suffering from the hook worm 
 disease. In some districts he found as high as 50 
 per cent of the adults and 80 per cent of the children 
 had fallen victims to this parasite. Dr. Stiles has 
 thus far received perhaps more abuse and reproach and 
 ridicule than appreciation for his painstaking efforts 
 that have opened the way for the restoration to health 
 of probably two millions of sufferers. 
 
 The parasite multiplies in the soft, warm moist 
 earth which has been infected with the bowel dis- 
 charges of some sufferer. They enter the body through 
 the tender portions of the feet and after wandering 
 about through the system for a time finally locate in 
 the intestines. Dr. Stiles went about his work of 
 making practical use of his discovery by at once com- 
 mencing the treatment of those who gave evidence 
 of being afflicted ; and he has personally carried <^n 
 the campaign of education and treatment in several 
 places during the last few years. 
 
 It is fortunate that the remedy is very simple. 
 Four, five-grain capsule doses of thymol, followed 
 by a dose of Epsom salts, is the remedy. Take the 
 capsules during the day three or four hours apart and 
 at night take the salts. This ought to be repeated 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 21^ 
 
 twice a week for two or three weeks. Some bad cases 
 may take ten weeks to cure. The bowel discharges 
 should all go into the vault and the people who want 
 to escape infection must wear shoes. 
 
 This important discovery and the remedy will be 
 appreciated by millions in the subtropical portions 
 of our continent. It gives promise of ridding our 
 fair Southland of an incubus that has been hanging 
 over the people there for a century and holding back 
 progress in every line. 
 
 Tape Worm. 
 
 Don't think yu\.\ have got one until you find some 
 
 of the joints in the bowel discharges. Then get a 
 dose of "Palleterrine de Tanret." Any first-class drug- 
 gist can get it for you. Live on white bread and milk 
 three days, clear the bowels each morning with a large 
 hot enema, and the third day take the dose and fol- 
 low it with a big dose of castor oil according to the 
 accompanying directions. There will be little doubt 
 about the results. Be'sure you have got the head. You 
 will find it at the end of a slim long neck about the 
 size of a small knitting needle; then you will ha\e 
 mental as well as physical rest. This remedy is an 
 extract of pomegranate root. It is the surest cure 
 known. You get this parasite from eating the flesh 
 of cattle, sheep, or hogs. A worse one. Trichina 
 Spiralis, you get from pork eating, and you can't get 
 rid of it, as it imbeds itself in the muscles, giving }<'u 
 all the symptoms of muscular rheumatism. If y<>u 
 get enough of them, they will finish your career. Tin's 
 is not the greatest objection against pork eating. 
 Moral, don't eat pork, and train yourself <>nt "f an 
 appetite for fiesh generally. 
 
220 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Bilious Troubles. 
 
 Bilious Attacks, arc due almost entirely to eating 
 animal foods, especially pork, and drinking" tea and 
 coffee. Large quantities of beans, peas, peanuts, or 
 cheese and nuts will also cause these attacks. The 
 true remedy is to remove the cause. Take none of the 
 ])ad foods or drinks, and eat wisely of the good ones. 
 To relieve the awful sickness, take a big hot soap 
 and water enema, and drink all the hot drink you 
 possibly can. Keep at it for two or three hours. 
 If the vomiting continues after the stomach is thor- 
 oughly empt}', swallow bits of ice chopped uj) to the 
 size of beans. Take two or three heaping tablespoon- 
 fuls. if necessary. This is a very sure remedy for 
 \(»miting after the stoniach is empty. There is no 
 drug half so prompt and eft'ective. For ])ain use heat 
 oA'er the stomach and bowels. 
 
 Tuberculosis of the Lungs (Consumption.) 
 
 This scourge of civilization, if taken in its earlier 
 stages, may be fully cured. It has been supposed that 
 this disease is caused by In-cathing in the germs from 
 dried sputum of other consumptives. But the highest 
 authorities employed by the United States Govern- 
 ment now affirm that the disease enters the body in 
 nearly every case by way of the stomach. It has been 
 fully demonstrated that milk, cream and butter and 
 cheese are the chief sources of infection, especially 
 butter. The milk of one tuberculosis cow can con- 
 laminate the milk of a whole dairy. The only way 
 to destroy the germ is by sterilization, or Pasteuriza- 
 tion. Bulletin 127 of the Bureau of Animal Industry 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 221 
 
 deals extensively with this question. It is almost 
 terrorizing' to learn how rapidly this disease is in- 
 creasing, 1:)oth in animals, and mankind. One cow in 
 everv four in the District of Columbia had tuberculosis 
 in I'^OS. What of other sections? The disease may 
 also l)e taken and exist in an entirely different form in 
 various parts of the l)ody, from the same causes or 
 from eating the tiesh of tuberculous cattle, or it may 
 be inoculated into the blood through a woinid. This 
 latter form of the disease settles in the glands and 
 joints. IIii)-ail is one form of it. Sometimes its prog- 
 ress ma}' be stayed and sometimes not. When it is 
 stayed it always leaves its mark in the form of a 
 stiff joint or swollen gland. For this class of trouble 
 the only stne remedy is to a\oid the causes. It takes 
 a g'ood dcid of cooking", baking and boiling to close 
 this avenue i^i approach against this terrible form '^f 
 ine disea^.e, il" }'ou are a tlesh eater. 
 
 Pj'.U v>n' may deal successfully with the form kncjwn 
 as lung ( oM^umption. The essential reu'erhes arf^ 
 first, and abundance of good food ; good fresh eggs 
 wdth whole grains, potatoes and fruits. Pure sterilized, 
 milk and cream will be good for those wdio like them. 
 These patients should have what they like, if it is good 
 food and can be easily digested, but as in all other 
 cases, they should n(»t mix fruits and vegetables, or 
 milk and cream with acid fruit. The diet must be 
 liberal, all tlie patient can take care of. 
 
 If tlie patient has been accustomed to tlesh diet 
 it will be best to allow a moderate use of meats which 
 are known to be healthy, especially if there is a strong 
 cra\ ing for them. This is' a poor occasion to dis- 
 cijiline the bod\- when il has on hand all that it can 
 
222 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 possibly attend to. Be sure such foods are more than 
 thoroughly cooked and discourage their use all that 
 you reasonably can. There is abundance of nutrition 
 in the vegetable world for the feeblest as well as the 
 strongest. 
 
 It will be a blessed day for us all when we learn 
 that we can find full and perfect nutrition in the 
 grains, fruits and vegetables, and when our perverted 
 tastes are reconciled to the change. 
 
 The next most important thing is to gently force 
 the breathing; (study Uses of Air and Breathing as 
 a Remedy), thus bringing the lung tissues into exer- 
 cise, and at the same time stimulating digestion by the 
 motion imparted to the stomach and bowels and liver 
 and other blood making organs. This is best attained 
 by seeking an altitude of from two thousand to five 
 thousand feet, where the air is pure, or even as high 
 as seven thousand feet. In these elevated regions 
 the patient is compelled to take about twice as much 
 breath as ordinarily. In low altitudes the patient must 
 be trained to make special efforts in breathing to se- 
 cure this same end. It will take the presence of a 
 special trainer to keep him busy enough at it for his 
 own good. It is much better to seek the higher alti- 
 tude as this compels the breathing, but the patient, if 
 weak, should go up by degrees, staying ten days or 
 longer at a three or four thousand foot altitude, then 
 as he gets used to it he may go higher. He should 
 sleep out of doors or where the circulation of air 
 is not hindered. Look out that enough fluids are 
 taken to keep the circulation in good condition and 
 the bowels moist. 
 
 .See that the body is kept warm with sufficient cloth- 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 223 
 
 ing and 'give daily some dry hand or towel friction 
 to the entire surface. The bowels must be kept open 
 by laxative foods, graham bread, fruit, olive oil, cream 
 and green foods, and abundance of water. Only a 
 very moderate amount of exercise should be taken at 
 first. Save all the energy of the body and direct it 
 to the lungs by proper breathing. The matter of 
 altitude I want to repeat is of most importance, be- 
 cause it compels full breathing, causing two or three 
 times as much breath to be inhaled as at sea level, on 
 account of the rarity of the air. People of the low lands 
 can have no just conception of what this means until 
 they have had the experience. These remedies with 
 sunshine and out of door life contain the secret of 
 cure. Of those who remain at the low levels a very 
 large proportion will die, just for want of forced 
 respiration, that is because they do not have the energy 
 to breathe, no matter how perfect the other condi- 
 tions may be. Those who seek the higher altitudes 
 at once, as soon as their trouble is known, will, with 
 rare exceptions get well if they have other favorable 
 conditions. The aroma of a pine or fir forest at these 
 high levels will prove a great advantage to the patient. 
 This is the author's confidence in altitudes as an aid 
 to the cure of lung consumption, and he has no ax 
 to grind. 
 
 Don't fail to make sure of pure air for the patient 
 wherever he is. 
 
 Bronchitis. 
 
 To relieve this trouble avoid breathing chilly damp 
 air and the drinking of very cold drinks, especially 
 in hot weather. Cane sugar produces a condition 
 
224 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 in the body which leads to irritation of the throat. 
 Honey is all right. Use oily foods like cream and 
 some nut or olive oil. On the whole, be rather sparing 
 of food, chewing as in dyspepsia, then use cool water, 
 sponge or hand baths every morning. Salt rubs all 
 over the body two or three times a week and cold 
 mitten friction every other day. Oil the body lightl\' 
 all over after every treatment. These are the all- 
 important things; get the blood back into the skin 
 and keep it there and so eat that there will be as 
 little waste as possible in the blood. Take an alter- 
 nate hot and cold foot bath every night ; wear a heating 
 compress on the throat every night, and an abdomi- 
 nal girdle. This treatment kept up for a few weeks 
 will make a marked change for the better and effect 
 a permanent cure in most cases. This disease should 
 be looked after early as one is liable to contract tuber- 
 culosis of the larynx and bronchi, which is practically 
 incurable. The warm climates alone mentioned under 
 "Prevention of Colds," and "Catarrh" are almost a 
 ])anacea for bronchitis. It pays to change to the cli- 
 mate of Southern California, Arizona, or New or Old 
 ^lexico with this trouble. In Europe it would pay to 
 go to Egypt, or any northern part of Africa. Gener- 
 ally, it is best to keep away from the coast, say fifteen 
 to thirty miles back. 
 
 Sore Throat. 
 
 This term covers a multiudc of symptoms among 
 the delicate organs of the throat. A general sugges- 
 tion which will co\cr the most cases may be made 
 as follows. • 1'akc a hot and cold alternation foot 
 l)ath lor half (jr three-quarters of an hour. Put the 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 
 
 J.J.O 
 
 feet in hot water up to the knees if possible for five 
 minutes. Then in cold for one-half to one minute. 
 Keep the hot water as hot as can be borne by put- 
 ting- in more hot as it cools and make the cold as 
 cold as it can be, even ice in the water, is all right. 
 This draws the blood to the feet and legs. Now near 
 the close of the foot bath put hot fomentations (see 
 fomentations) about the throat from ear to ear for ten 
 minutes; this will bring the blood still more from 
 the inside of the throat to the skin. Xow place a 
 heating compress about the throat and put the patient 
 to bed with something hot to his feet. Don't forget 
 to drink a quart, or so, of hot lemonade during the 
 treatment. This will give relief in most every case. .V 
 good inhalation is a great help in most cases. For 
 formula see "How to Stop a Hacking Cough," Chap 10. 
 
 Attend to the sore throats faithfully and practice 
 instruction "How to Pre\ent Taking Cold," espe- 
 cially during the seasons when diphtheria is most 
 likely to be prevalent, for these things are what make 
 diphtheria possible. 
 
 Diphtheria can develop only in a diseased or weak- 
 ened mucDUs membrane. .\ healthy throat will not per- 
 mit the germs to incubate. Whenever a sore throat be- 
 gins to show white or yellow leathery patches espe- 
 cially about the tonsils it is time to begin action for 
 diphtheria. I'sc the hot and cold foot bath as in sore 
 throat (read carefully), then steam the throat with 
 fumes of slacking lime. Put a \V\ece of lime as large 
 or larger! than a man's fist in a kettle and pour on a 
 pint of hot water. It will begin to slack at once. 
 T.et the patient sit with face o\er this kettle with 
 a sheet or blanket thrown over the head reaching 
 
226 ESSEJNTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 down to the floor to keep in the fumes. Add a little 
 more water after a few minutes. Open the mouth 
 wide and breathe in through the mouth and nostrils 
 all the fumes you can for ten or fifteen minues. It is 
 the tiny motes of lime that destroy the germs. Repeat 
 every hour or two the first day. Between times put 
 the patient to bed and apply the ice pack over the 
 throat. Change once in an hour to hot fomentations 
 for three minutes. All the while keep something 
 hot to the feet and give the patient plenty of lemonade 
 to drink and let him eat pineapple freely, and often. 
 The ice treatment should be kept up most of the time 
 for the first day. This is the time, the very first day, 
 to abort diphtheria. It pays to be faithful for the 
 first twenty-four hours. The secret of cure lies in 
 doing all you can to lessen the fever in the throat. 
 This is best accomplished by drawing the blood to 
 the feet and by cooling the throat with ice. Then 
 labor all the time to destroy the germs and prevent 
 the membrane forming. Permanganate, either of Pot- 
 ash, or Soda, one dram to quart of water makes an 
 excellent gargle and should be used two or three times 
 an hour faithfully. In infants use it with a swab. 
 Anti-toxin is used generally now by most physicians. 
 It works on the plan of putting something into the 
 blood to counteract or antidote the poison which the 
 germs generate. It is of little use after the third 
 day. To be really effective it should be used the 
 first day. The treatments above recommended are 
 safe and nearly always effective and may be used 
 in conjunction with the Anti-toxin. It is a dangerous 
 disease and requires the skill of an experienced physi- 
 cian and nurse. These are the principles involved in 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 227 
 
 the treatment of this severe malady. There are other 
 particulars. Don't undertake to manage a case alone 
 unless you are obliged to. 
 
 To Break Up a Cold in the Head. 
 
 The very morning when the nose first stops up, wet 
 the scalp and hair with cold water. Wet for three 
 inches only, out from the scalp if you are a woman. 
 Then wrap the head up close for the night in a heavy 
 Turkish towel, or a heavy woollen flannel. Drink 
 two or three glasses of water, hot lemonade, or any 
 herb tea you like. Your cold will probably be gone 
 in the morning. Flavored water enables you to drink 
 more, which is a very essential thing. See that the 
 hair is dried out thoroughly in the morning. Take 
 a good thorough dry Turkish or cool wet rub, followed 
 with oil, according to whether you have a warm 
 room or not to take it in, and you will rise above 
 the present attack. Colds may often be broken up 
 at the start by full deep breathing, plentiful use of 
 water and fasting for a day. All that is necessary to 
 do is to get right down to business and do the work. 
 This clears the body for action and equalizes the cir- 
 culation. 
 
 Influenza or La Grippe. 
 
 This diease is known by symptoms of a severe cold 
 and tormenting aches in the muscles. Do not wait 
 until the aches begin to be severe before you attack 
 the trouble. When the first symptoms appear clear 
 the bowels with a large enema, drink a large quantity 
 of hot water or of any herb tea you like and some 
 hot lemonade. Tlicn take a hot foot and leg bath, as 
 
28 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 hot as can be borne up to the knees, for twenty min- 
 utes or half an hour, or the hot blanket pack, until 
 you sweat freely; then take to bed and wrap u]) 
 well with heavy blankets; put something" hut to thr 
 feet and a hot water bottle to the back between the 
 shoulders, drink a glass of water every time you wake 
 u[) during the night and by morning you will haA-e 
 sweat most of the trouble out. The main thing is a 
 good thorough sweat. Bathe off the next morning, 
 keep on drinking moderately, and rest a day or so. 
 You may have to take the second sweat if you have 
 waited too long before beginning. If the flesh aches 
 after the first sweat drink more and sweat more, and 
 take a good massage treatment. Ji^ist wash it out 
 and after you have sweat the water well out of the 
 blood drink again so the blood will not thicken, and 
 the poison settle again in the muscles. As long as 
 the flesh aches it pays to keep drinking and sweating 
 and mani]iulating. Tn some cases a good cascara 
 cathartic is in order. Never take a sweat unless the 
 bowels are comparatively empty. 
 
 Congestion of the Lungs. 
 
 This trouble is (piite sure to develop into pneumonia. 
 If there is much fever, cold applications to the chest 
 changed often and cool enemas used thoroughl}' enough 
 to keep the temperature below 102 degrees \\\\\ l)c 
 absolutely necessary. An exceedingly effective thing 
 is the sweating ])ack (see how to gi\'c a sweat) and 
 keep very cold applications all o\er the chest and 
 lungs while in the hot pack. Better not put the cold 
 on tintil the sweat has well started. This, if skillfully 
 applied, will abort pneumonia on the start. Do not 
 
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 leave the cold on more than twenty minutes at a time. 
 Change to hot application for two or three minutes 
 and then replace cold. The most convenient thing 
 to apply cold is the large rubber water bottle halt 
 full of ice water. 
 
 There are those among medical men who under- 
 stand this method; they are the safest physicians. Drug 
 medicines only depress the vital energies in these 
 cases, and lessen the chances of recovery. 
 
 Inflamation of the Lungs (Pneumonia.) 
 
 Give the patient plenty of fruit juices of every kind 
 lie likes to drink, especially lemonade, orange, grape 
 or apple juice, and plenty of cool pure distilled water. 
 Apply cool sponging every hour or two for' fifteen 
 minutes whenever the temperature rises above 102 
 or 103 degrees. But best of all put the hot water 
 spinal bag between the shoulders and a broad applica- 
 tion of ice poultice over the chest and lungs, using the 
 caution not to continue the ice more than twenty min- 
 utes at a time without change to heat for three min- 
 utes. This will check the development of the Pneu- 
 mococcus in the lungs and convey the blood away 
 from the lungs. Keep up this course of treatment for 
 two or three hours at a time. 
 
 Anemia. 
 
 This is a blood disease. The question is how tc 
 renew the blood, how to induce the body to make- 
 good blood. Sunshine, breathing, and water drinking 
 stand first. Give cold mitten friction, lireak up the 
 lazy habits of breathing. Massage to the stomach 
 and abdomen are a wonderful aid. Give the patient 
 
230 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 good rich, but not greasy foods, and in a few days your 
 patient will be on the high road to perfect recovery. 
 This disease occurs most often in girls just after 
 they have learned to wear the corset. It is known 
 then under the name of "Chlorosis." The bands must 
 be loosened and every garment hung from the shoul- 
 ders. Let the waist line expand, so that breathing can 
 be natural. No use doing anything without this. 
 You may take iron for the blood as long as you like, 
 but you will get meager results without the breathing 
 and sunshine. Very few women there are who can- 
 not in a few weeks enlarge their waist line from twn 
 to three inches with great improvement to their health. 
 These seemingly simple things are what tell for health 
 in this malady. The vibratory breathing should be 
 kept prominently before the patient's mind. 
 
 Spasms. 
 
 Too much, or too little blood in the brain is liable 
 to result in spasms. If too much is the cause, the face 
 will be red and flushed, if too little the face will be 
 blanched and pale. In the first class of cases put 
 the child in a warm bath at 100 degrees just as soon 
 as possible for fifteen to twenty minutes. As soon 
 as the spasm is over rub the skin vigorously with 
 w'ater at 85 degrees for five minucs. Give the child 
 a good additional supply of pure water to drink and 
 I)ut it to bed for a day or two. 
 
 If the blood has receded from the brain drop the 
 head downward and hold it in that position for se\- 
 eral minutes until the color comes back to the face, 
 then gi\-e plenty of water to drink and put the child 
 to rest. X(A\ in every case of spasms look out fur 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 231 
 
 worms, if there are other evidences of their presence 
 give a good vermifuge and keep the supply of water 
 in the blood. No other medicine will be needed. See 
 that the child has pure milk and a clean nipple to 
 nurse. If weaned, pure simple food and water and 
 warmth and rest are all the further attention the little 
 one will need. 
 Holding the Breath. 
 
 If a child loses his temper because you cross his 
 way and holds his breath to scare you into obedience. 
 just drop him head downward over your knee and 
 administer a few surprise spanks with a rather heavy 
 hand. When he finds out that mother understands 
 him and is not frightened over his demonstrations, 
 he will give up his tactics and forget all about holding 
 his breath. 
 
 Choking. 
 
 In cases of choking, drop the head downward (in 
 your sloping lap and spat the back between the should- 
 ers and over the ribs quite hard. 
 
 Hysteria. 
 
 This is not a perverse mental state. It is caused to a 
 great extent by disturbances in the physical system 
 which send too much blood to the base of the brain. 
 The most effective immediate relief is an ice bag i" 
 the base of the brain. This will give rest from the 
 nervous turmoil at once. 
 
 For general remedies, improve the general health 
 as suggested under "Anema" and look carefully after 
 uterine conditions. In most of these cases hot douches 
 twice or three times a week will help to remove the 
 exciting causes. The douche should be about 11? 
 
232 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 to 118 degrees F., and continue twenty minutes. Must 
 be taken lying on the back. A board over the bath 
 tub, or from a chair to a wash tub will be very con- 
 venient. 
 
 Insomnia. 
 
 Inability to sleep, from disturbances of the cir- 
 culation in the l)rain; generally from too much blood, 
 occasionally from too little in the brain. Some per- 
 sistent cases are due to the general conditions in the 
 nervous system. Dilute the blood with pure water, 
 aerate it with plenty of pure air. Practice panting, 
 deep inspiration and expiration. Bring the blood to 
 the surface by such means as will not stir up the 
 nervous system, and yet tend to hold the blood at 
 the surface for several hours. This is best accom- 
 plished with the neutral bath. It will usually bring 
 sleep the first night. This is the great remedy used to 
 help out mental cases in some of the leading institu- 
 tions of the world. The blood vessels of the skin 
 must be induced to receive and hold a large part of 
 the blood for several hours at a time. This gives 
 relief to the congested vessels of the brain and relief 
 to the mental ailment follows. Stop worrying, and 
 do this yourself. Find something pleasant to think 
 about. Call in a friend and have a good restful visit 
 and a good laughing spell. Study the law of rest 
 and learn the meaning of Romans 8:28. Believe in 
 something; rest in creative power. Study botany, 
 watch the growth of plant life, and see the power 
 of the Creator in His works. Don't be too intense 
 and feel that everything depends on you. The world 
 would move right along if you should drop out. Don't 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 233 
 
 keep grinding at the mill until you are utterly used 
 up. Relax, let everything become limp, forget it, 
 He down and die to all your aspirations, and relief 
 will come in a short time. Learn to trust in your 
 Creator. 
 
 Neurasthenia. 
 
 Exhaustion of the nervous system. A most har- 
 rowing distressing condition of things. None of the 
 muscles or glands, or brain cells or other tissues are 
 able to fully perform their functions, because for want 
 of nutrition the nerves are unable to keep control 
 and carry on the work of the system in an orderly 
 efficient manner. Generally the causes are over- 
 mental work and worry, lack of ph3"sical labor and 
 want of proper quality in food. This leads to loss 
 of appetite for food and water, and consequent starva- 
 tion of the entire body. The remedy is change of 
 scenery, up into the mountains if possible, to force the 
 breathing; or restful surroundings in some good San- 
 itarium home. Let everything possible be done to 
 prevent care and anxiety. The patient must be in- 
 duced to place himself under the care of some faithful 
 tried friend who must create hopeful, cheerful sur- 
 roundings, controlling the mind and feelings of the 
 patient as far as possible. Diaphragm gymnastics 
 should be faithfully executed for five minutes out of 
 every hour, if possible. Coax the patient to drink, 
 even if he has no appetite for water. Give him charged 
 water or water flavored with something which he 
 likes. The stomach should be coaxed to take nutritious 
 foods, like rice, whole grains and eggs, with a full 
 meal of fruits at night, three times a week. Lemonade 
 
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234 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 and fruit juices, and fruits themselves will start the 
 appetite going all right in a few days if breathing 
 exercises, are faithfully followed. As said in another 
 place, vibratory breathing is the greatest thing known 
 to stir up digestive activity. Mechanical vibration 
 to the stomach and abdomen is good in most of these 
 cases. Begin very gently. Then take full long deep 
 breaths constantly. Don't forget to drink, at proper 
 times. This insures good flow of the blood and car- 
 ries the nutritive elements to the w^eak parts. Diligent 
 thorough chewing will be most appropriate exercise 
 about three times a day and will wonderfully prepare 
 the way for digestion and assimilation. Once these 
 principles are adopted, it will not take all summer to 
 be convinced that this is the royal road to health. 
 There are numerous sanitarium treatments that can 
 be best applied by the trained nurse in some good 
 institution. Massage is almost always in order in 
 these cases. Get the patient where every environment 
 will be as near natural as possible. Quiet, restful, 
 cheerful, enjoyable circumstances, with enough 
 changes to prevent monotony, are an absolute neces- 
 sity. Some of the worst cases are brought on by 
 worry and fretting or you may call it mental anxiety. 
 These cases sometimes tax the resources of the best 
 institutions. It will be wise for those who are be- 
 ginning to get nervous to take heed to the foregoing 
 sus:s:estions before thev reach the limit. 
 
 Paralysis. 
 
 This is a symptom coming from several causes, the 
 most common of which is the bursting of a blood ves- 
 sel or the formation of clot in the brain. This trouble 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 235 
 
 is known as apoplexy. We do not wish to speak of 
 all the causes of paralysis, but we wish to em- 
 phasize some facts concerning what we are fully per- 
 suaded is the chief cause of this serious malady. The 
 condition in the body which leads the way to apoplexy 
 is a hardening- of the arteries and veins (Arterio Scler- 
 osis). This is caused according to some of the best 
 authorities by calcareous and other mineral matter 
 settling or forming into the muscular cell structure 
 of the arteries and veins until they lose their elasticity 
 and become somewhat of the consistency of eggshell. 
 This hardening takes place chiefly in those blood ves- 
 sels which are subjected to the least motion, of which 
 those in the brain present the best examples. When 
 the pressure of excitement, or worry, or overwork 
 brings to bear an extra strain on the hardened artery, 
 the elasticity being gone, the blood vessel bursts, 
 thus forming a clot in the brain Avhich disturbs tlie 
 functions of the nerve cells, and the nerves' going out 
 from that part lose their natural control and the part 
 falls helpless, in other words, is paralyzed. Now the 
 question is w'here does this calcareous matter come 
 from, and why should* it settle in the -arteries? Tire 
 greatest source of supply is in the hard water which 
 most of the people are accustomed to drinking. When 
 separated from the water by the digestive elements 
 in the body, it stops and fills into those places that 
 offer the least vital resistance to its presence. The 
 ferments in the body most of which, in our opinion, 
 are excited by the presence of yeast germs, leave 
 their products to float in the blood and weaken and 
 irritate the inner linings of the blood vessels. This 
 opens the way for the earthy salts to deposit in those 
 
236 ESSENTIAI.S TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 arteries and veins where there is the least motion. 
 
 Anything which interferes with digestion would tend 
 to leave an irritable class of poisonous foreign matter 
 in the blood. 
 
 If the foregoing are accepted as facts by the reader 
 he will not be long at deciding to choose plain, un- 
 stimulating foods as free from yeast and other fer- 
 ments as possible, and pure soft water to drink If 
 as we have shown under "Hard Water" in Chap. 10. 
 people living in soft water countries are nearly free 
 from this serious disease^ it ought to be quite thor- 
 oughly demonstrated that the causes given above in 
 brief, should be allowed to have their weight, and 
 wisdom would lead all people to adopt simple pure 
 ioods and water for the sake of avoiding this, as well 
 as other disasters, that await the indififerent. 
 
 If everyone would adopt the plan of having one 
 meal of fruit, or principally of fruit, daily, this would 
 do about all that is necessary in connection with dis- 
 tilled water to keep the ferments subdued and the 
 mineral matters in the blood in a state of solution. 
 The fruit acids are a most welcome and necessary 
 food product to every organ and cell of the body. 
 
 What to do in a case of apoplectic stroke will be ap- 
 preciated by all who value natural procedures. Take 
 excellent care of the patient from the hour of the 
 attack, giving freely of pure soft water and encourage 
 breathing when the patient is awake. Keep hot water 
 bottles in bed warm enough to keep the helpless 
 side, especially the foot and hand, warm. Assist the 
 patient to turn and move about in bed as often as 
 they show evidence of desire to do so. Give plenty of 
 rice and milk, or rice and fruit, or flaked foods and 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 237 
 
 milk, or grain foods of any kind, except yeast bread, 
 and fruits. See that the bowels are emptied at least 
 once a day, if an enema has to be used to accomplish 
 this end. Give light massage to the spine, and light 
 vibration to stomach and abdomen. Gently squeeze 
 the flesh of the affected parts for a few minutes, be- 
 ginning at the body and w6rking toward the hand 
 or foot, with a motion to draw the blood toward 
 the body. Do this twice a day say for three minutes, 
 to each member. 
 
 For about a week after the stroke, there is danger 
 in severe cases, of inflammation of the brain setting in. 
 So no general stirring up should be given the body 
 until this danger is past. After eight or ten days 
 begin to increase the massage work, extending from 
 the base of the brain to the toes and fingens, but 
 do not do enough to tire the patient. Tsvf minutes 
 of gentle work evenly distributed will be sufficient. 
 . The force and amount of this treatment may be 
 slowly increased from week to week for four or six 
 months, if necessary. 
 
 Here is the point most generally overlooked by tlie 
 medical man. The trouble being in the brain the brain 
 cells must be restored before they can again take 
 control of the paral)'^zed parts ; and while this re- 
 storation is going on, the hand and arm, or leg, and 
 foot may simply perish of inaction before the brain 
 can resume connections again with the weakened 
 ])arts. I fence the necessity of keeping the weakened 
 parts in operation, as far as possible, by passive exer- 
 cises, until the brain cells are better, when the brain 
 mav and will generally make connections again and 
 
238 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 the patient enjoy to a fair degree the use of the parts 
 that have been in trouble. 
 
 If a well person were to put the arm in a sling 
 for four or five months, it would ever after be a use- 
 less arm, it would simply perish. How important 
 then to keep the afflicted muscles and nerves in as 
 perfect a state of nutrition as possible by artificial 
 means until the brain is prepared to resume control. 
 Of course this must be a gradual process of growth. 
 
 And here is a very important thought. Just as soon 
 as the patient has resumed a fair degree of mental 
 control, and can get the least action out of the foot 
 or hand, even though it be only the slightest move 
 Vif toe or finger, encourage this voluntary action for 
 a 't€vy, minutes out of every hour. The voluntary effort 
 is worth, more than any outside help but the two must 
 be united ir>. these cases. 
 
 If the patient I'as no power of motion have him 
 think "open" and "shut" as you open and shut the 
 hand for him or "out" and. "in" as you move the arm 
 back and forth. We have seen, this effort rewarded in 
 a few days effort with c^uite a degree of voluntary mo- 
 tion. 
 
 Especially should this effort at voluntary use be 
 persistent in connection with massage and arm move- 
 ments, for the arm is so liable to hug the body and the 
 'hand close up tight. This is due to the failure of the 
 extensor nerves and muscles, those on the outside 
 of the arm, which permits the flexors to contract, as 
 they have nothing to resist them. These should be 
 stretched many times a day, by e;ctending the fingers 
 and straightening the arm out and putting it back 
 and up, on a level with the shoulder. It is a good 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 2-59 
 
 plan to put a pillow under the arm to keep the arm out. 
 Electricity, first mild galvanic for a few weeks to the 
 affected nerves and muscles, then faradic gently in- 
 creasing as the body resumes a more normal degree 
 of strength. Later on when the patient is able to 
 be out and walk around, treatments with the static 
 current will be beneficial ; but instead the faradic may 
 still be used making it stronger as the patient can 
 endure without feeling weary after or soon after the 
 treatment. 
 
 The faithful, persistent nurse can follow these direc- 
 tions carefully, or the intelligent son or daughter can 
 use them on the afflicted parent and accomplish re- 
 sults that we have not been accustomed to seeing ac- 
 complished in these cases. 
 
 Most important of all, let me repeat it, after the 
 patient has lived through the first thirty days, don't 
 let the affected parts of the body perish for want of 
 use while the brain is recovering. Give passive ex- 
 ercises, and mild currents of electricity, and see that 
 the digestion is well regulated. 
 
 Medicines, except physic, are a mockery in these 
 cases. A mild cathartic may be indulged occasionally 
 instead of the enema. As the case advances toward 
 recovery it will be important to follow the instruc- 
 tions on "Constipation." 
 
 Study these thoughts over and over again, if you 
 are a nurse, until you see clearly the mode of pro- 
 cedure, then you can accomplish all for the patient 
 that can be done and much more than has been ac- 
 complished in the past for this class of cases, except 
 in a few cases where these suggestions have been 
 appreciated. 
 
240 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Prolapse of Stomach, Etc. 
 
 Among women, we daily find cases of severe pro- 
 lapse (falling) of the bowels and stomach and internal 
 organs. Some are curable, others incurable, but all 
 may get relief, in a measure at least. The curable 
 cases are those which have not become too chronic 
 and are still quite strong otherwise. Those who have 
 been longer in the way of transgression, until the 
 power of digestion and assimilation have been thor- 
 oughly impaired, stand a chance of getting only par- 
 tial relief, but relief pays in such a distressing state 
 of aflfairs. Don't blame Providence. Surgery is some- 
 times necessary for the pelvic organs. The remedies 
 within the reach of all are ; first remove the pres- 
 sure from above, by dispensing with waist bands and 
 corset, which had most to do in "helping" to produce 
 the condition. Then put the pressure lower down, in 
 the form of a good elastic abdominal supporter to 
 "help" hold the abdomen up. Whenever a little lift 
 under the abdomen while standing gives a feeling 
 of rest and comfort, it is positive evidence that a 
 supporter is needed. Wear it just comfortably snug. 
 Next hang all the clothing from the shoulders and 
 l)ractice diaphragm gymnastics faithfully. If the case 
 is a bad one, for two or three months, spend much time 
 in horizontal repose with hips elevated. Give the 
 stomach rest from all iiniiecessar\- l)ur(lens both ex- 
 ternally and internally. Dry foods well chewed, and 
 fruits well insalivated, with water taken often in small 
 quantities is best. Suspend no skirts or other garments 
 from the waist line. Some exercises lying on the 
 back are excellent. I^ie on the back with the body 
 and limbs extended straight; lift first one foot and 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 241 
 
 limb and then the other, keeping them extended. Raise 
 the limb slowly and lower it slowly. Do not rush 
 this exercise. At first lift the foot eight or ten inches 
 from the couch. Gradually increase until it can be 
 lifted almost perpendicularly. During the latter part 
 of each exercise, lift the head from the pillow each 
 time the foot is lifted. Be careful that these move- 
 ments are made deliberately, and that the downward 
 motion is as even and steady as the upward. Do not 
 let the foot drop. Take these exercises eight or 
 ten minutes at a time^ three or four times a day. Go 
 slow at first and gradually increase extent and rate 
 of movement. As you grow stronger you may occa- 
 sionally lift both feet and the head at the same time. 
 Then add another movement ; resting the weight on 
 the heels and shoulders, lift the body free from the 
 couch, lowering it slowly again. Do this two or three 
 times a minute. Then a little later as you grow 
 stronger rise to a sitting posture without helping with 
 the hands or elbows. Do not hurry these exercises 
 and strain yourself and become discouraged. They 
 are a powerful means if gradually followed to 
 strenghten the weak muscles of the abdomen. They 
 ought to be practiced by multitudes who are not yet 
 sick in bed. 
 
 Painful Menstruation. 
 
 This is usually a congestive difficulty. With rare 
 exceptions it will yield quickly to water drinking and 
 pure food. Let the patient follow carefully the in- 
 structions given in this book on water drinking. Take- 
 two or three salt glows per week. .\X the time of the 
 trnuble drink an extra amount of water or hot herl> 
 
242 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 tea, just a day or so in advance; and take a large hot 
 enema just as it begins. A hot water bag continuously 
 just below the small of the back, and a cold one for a 
 few minutes at a time low down in front will check the 
 pain very quickly. Keep the body and limbs well 
 clothed during the cool season. We have seen awful 
 cases of suffering pass away in three months when 
 nothing but water drinking, constipation, breathing 
 and clothing were attended to faithfully. It is sim- 
 ply a question of keeping the blood from congesting 
 in the plastic tissues. In a very few cases there is 
 imperforate hymen. This would call for a little simple 
 surgery. 
 
 Blood Poisoning. 
 
 A most excellent illustration of how the body pre- 
 pares to defend itself is seen in cases where persons 
 have carried fever sores or other indolent ulcers for 
 years. The individual bears the stamp of anemia and 
 exhaustion but still he lives. If a well person by any 
 means becomes inoculated with virus from one of these 
 sores, he will probably die in a few days at most. 
 He may have been scratched only with a pin that 
 was infected. If he does not die he will be an ex- 
 ceedingly sick man just because his body was not 
 prepared to deal with the poison. We say that the 
 newly infected body is surprised and overwhelmed 
 before it can get ready for the battle with death. 
 
 The best remedy for blood poisoning is long con- 
 tinued applications of hot water, changed occasionally 
 to ice cold. If possible the part afflicted should be 
 immersed in water as hot as can be borne daily and 
 continuously with changes to cold once in twenty 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 243 
 
 minutes until relief comes. It is well to add some 
 good germicide to the water or a strong antiseptic 
 like salt. It will help the mind of the patient at least. 
 
 Burns. 
 
 Bad burns should be immersed, if possible, in tepid 
 water for several hours. After which they may be 
 covered with a dressing of equal parts lime water and 
 linseed oil (called carron oil), or carbolated vaseline, 
 10 drops to the oz., spread on absorbent lint and laid 
 over the burn. Great care should be taken to keep 
 the air from the burn until the new skin has begun 
 to form. If suppuration takes place disinfect with 
 Peroxide of Hydrogen. 
 
 If the wound cannot well be immersed, cleanse it 
 with water by pouring or spraying and then dust 
 over with a thick coating of common baking soda. 
 This has a reputation for allaying the smarting. Use 
 this for the first day then apply one of the dressings 
 suggested above. 
 
 Some extensive burns are treated successfully b} 
 immersion in tepid water for several weeks. Of course 
 this can be done only in a good institution with special 
 facilities. 
 
 Wounds. 
 
 Clean thoroughly with diluted peroxide of hydrogen. 
 Or, a little spirits of turpentine will do. But it is by 
 no means as good as the peroxide. Then draw the 
 wound together with some surgical adhesive strips. 
 Every family should keep a spool of this in tlie house. 
 Broad, deep wounds will need a few stitches. Then 
 if it is a bad wound cover over with absorbent cotton 
 
244 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 and bandage so as to protect. In small cuts a bandage 
 of cloth over the surgical strip is all that is necessary. 
 If there is serious bleeding in the hand or foot or 
 limb, elevate the part and bind to hold the blood back 
 until the surgeon arrives. 
 
 To protect a cut or laceration on the back of the 
 hand or any broad surface of the body, cleanse the 
 wound thoroughly as suggested, draw together with 
 some narrow pieces of surgical strip, cover with a 
 very thin gauze covering of absorbent cotton and 
 then pour over it all a thin coating of collodian cut 
 with ether. Let it dry and put on another thin coat. 
 They call this liquid court plaster. In brief, the cure 
 for wounds is a cleansing protection and rest. 
 
 If proud flesh develops it is simply an overgrowth of 
 cells in the effort of nature to heal a wound. There 
 is nothing dangerous about it, but the wound will be 
 a long time healing unless it is removed. Burnt alum 
 is all that is necessary. Pulverize and spread a thick 
 coat over the wound. Hold in place with a bandage 
 over night. One or two applications will generally 
 remove it and the wound will then heal rapidlv. 
 
 Sprains and Bruises. 
 
 It is usually the ankle or wrist that is in troul)le. 
 Provide two buckets of water, one as hot as you can 
 bear, the other as cold as you can get. Dip the ])art 
 in hot water for five minutes and then in cold water 
 for one. After three or four changes begin to apply 
 gentle massage over the sprain working backward al- 
 ways, toward the heart. After treating it for one hour, 
 keeping the hot water hot and the cold water cold, 
 put it in a heating compress for the night. Repeat 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 245 
 
 mornings and evenings for a day or two; and a sprain 
 which otherwise would have lasted six weeks, and 
 perhaps a lifetime, will be entirely well. Bruises thor- 
 oughly treated in this manner do not become dis- 
 colored to any extent. The foregoing statements will 
 be true of every case where the ligaments are not 
 torn. If the foot or wrist pulls to one side, there is a 
 torn ligament or a bone out of place. This will demand 
 good surgical skill in bandaging and treatment. 
 
 If heat does not relieve the pain in an ordinary 
 sprain use an ice pack for half an hour or ice water; 
 then heat for five minutes ; then ice again until the 
 pain subsides. You will find once in a while a case 
 that will require more cold and very little heat. Use 
 the all night heating compress as in the other case. 
 Liniments, lotions, washes are all of no consequence 
 whatever as compared with these applications of al- 
 ternate heat and cold. The point to be won is to 
 prevent the blood from settling. This method is so 
 far superior to the old six weeks to three months 
 method by dry bandaging the part, and doping the 
 patient with morphine, that it is not to be compared 
 with it in any w^ay. 
 
 Chills and Chilliness. 
 
 Chills and chilliness may be quickly relieved by 
 drinking one or two cups of hot drink and applying 
 heat to the back between the shoulders. No matter 
 where else you put heat, put it at this point and relief 
 will come at once. If you do not have heat at hand 
 work the spine from the neck to the small of the 
 back, going in as deeply as you can with the ends of 
 the fingers without hurting the patient seriously. Beat 
 
246 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 with the edge of the hand; tap with the tips of the 
 fingers, slap and spat the whole back. Finish by deep 
 stroking crosswise of the back with both palms, keci)- 
 ing tiie hands close together and drawing them in 
 opposite directions each move. These movements 
 will bring relief and comfort in five minutes. 
 
 Note. — This is not intended as a cure for chills and 
 fever, though it will help to give relief. 
 
 Ague, Chills and Fever. 
 
 This disease if taken at once will yield quickest to 
 a succession of thorough sweatings taken each time 
 about half to three quarters of an hour before the chill 
 is due and continued each time for one to two hours. 
 The patient will feel better after each sweat. Don't 
 forget that abundance of herb tea or hot lemonade are 
 all important. After six or eight sweats take one six 
 to ten grain dose of quinine. This is almost a sure 
 cure for recent cases. In chronic cases where the 
 white blood corpuscles have become enfeebled and 
 greatly reduced in number, cold mitten frictions given 
 some hours before the chill is expected and an hour 
 or two after it has passed and repeated three or four 
 times a day for a few days will soon conquer the 
 difificulty. Should be graduated to the feebler patients. 
 This procedure belongs to the Father Kneipp class 
 of cures. This treatment has great merit in a lar^L^e 
 class of cases, but it is badly abused when one uses it 
 for the cure of all ailments. 
 
 Typhoid Fever. 
 
 The Typhoid Bacillus is taken in through a contami- 
 nated water supply, generally some well near a barn- 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 247 
 
 yard or cesspool, or by means of insect infections of 
 food. Flies which have visited the excrementitioiis 
 waste from fever patients convey this to the foods 
 that are not protected. One fly is capable of doing this 
 infection thoroughly. When first taken in they soon 
 find their way into the blood. This causes the gen- 
 eral disturbance, that for three or four days precedes 
 the full development of the disease, when they have 
 settled in Pyers glands in the small intestines. Here 
 they multiply rapidly and generate the poison which 
 causes the high temperatures. It is the opinion of 
 the writer that if taken before the bacillus have lodged 
 in the intestine they could be thrown out of the system 
 by vigorous water drinking and sweating and cold 
 mitten frictions. But as the disease is not usually 
 recognized till after this stage is reached the only 
 thing that can be done is to combat the growth and 
 development of the germs in the intestines. This 
 is best done by the free use of fruits and fruit juices 
 and water drinking, cold or hot as best suits the 
 patient, and the use of ice over the abdomen whenexer 
 the temperature rises above 102 or 103 degrees. Cold 
 enemas also should be given a pint at a time. If there 
 is constipation the bowels should be thoroughly 
 cleansed with a full warm soap and water enema daily. 
 Cool sponging of the patient several times daily will 
 give great relief. Use cold water, even with ice in ii. 
 whenever the temperature is above 102 degrees 1'. 
 When it runs to 103 give the cold enema and apply 
 an ice poultice made by putting broken ice between 
 two thicknesses of Turkish towel and laying it oxer 
 the entire abdomen for twenty minutes at a time. 
 Replace this with a hot fomentation for three or four 
 
248 ESSENTIALyS TO I^IFE AND HEALTH 
 
 minutes. Then apply the ice again. Repeat till the 
 temperature is lowered from one to three degrees. 
 Little danger need be anticipated if the temperature 
 is kept down to 101 or 102 degrees most of the time. 
 Feed no milk or animal products as they form the 
 best media for the growth of the germs, while the 
 fruit juices, orange, apple, cherry, berry juices of all 
 kinds, lemonade, with little or no sugar, (better none 
 in this case), and grape juice contain sufficient nour- 
 ishment, and act as germicides helping to destroy 
 and hinder their growth. The writer has seen a typhoid 
 patient that had been delirious for forty days and pro- 
 nounced hopeless by the attending physician, fully 
 restored to clearness of mind in less than a week by 
 a change from milk to pure apple juice, and she lived. 
 No drugs are needed. They may satisfy the minds 
 of the family but will do the patient no good unless he 
 is crying for medicine, when a few bread pills or a 
 little sugar of milk or tartaric acid or a little salt and 
 water, anything to satisfy the mind that medicine 
 is being used, may be given. This course followed 
 faithfully will usually see the breaking up of the dis- 
 ease about the seventeenth to the twentieth day, with- 
 out any bowel perforations which really constitute 
 the only grave danger in these cases. Be careful when 
 the disease turns not to give the patient any solid 
 foods for eight to ten days. Use only gruels, soups, 
 and porridges with a little sterilized cream until all 
 danger is past. All coarse foods should be avoided 
 for at least two weeks. 
 
 Treated in this manner typhoid loses most of its 
 terrors. There are physicians and nurses who under- 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 249 
 
 Stand this method. They are the only ones who ought 
 to be permitted to treat this disease. 
 
 Contagious Diseases. 
 
 Chickenpox, scarlet fever, measles, mumps and 
 whooping cough are almost sure to come to every one 
 sooner or later. The best remedies are abundance of 
 mucilaginous drinks, and fruit juices, and warm or 
 cold packs as you may prefer. Flax seed with lemon 
 juice and barley or rice water with the less acid fruit 
 juices, or fruit juices alone, like unfermented grape 
 juice, and fresh cider made from clean sound fruit 
 are the best things to put in the body while these 
 diseases last. The point is to keep the tissue cells so 
 plentifully supplied with fluid that they can easily 
 wash out the specific poisons. 
 
 In the eruptive forms, packs make the skin active 
 and bring the rash to the surface. As soon as the 
 eruption is well out .^r as soon as the mumps begin 
 to improve leave out the packs. Be sensible enough 
 in the care of all these cases to keep the patient from 
 exposure to sudden changes until they are well on 
 the way to recovery. 
 
 Whooping Cough. 
 
 Keep the throat and upper chest well oiled, and 
 protected all day with a heavy flannel bandage or 
 pad cut to fit; Alboline is best, but any clean oil will 
 do. Morning and evening give a good thorough fo- 
 mentation over these parts for fifteen minutes alter- 
 nated every five minutes with very cold cloths. Dur- 
 ing the night wear the heating compress. "Saleratus 
 water half a teaspoonful to a large teacupful of wa- 
 
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250 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 ter" sweetened with honey and flavored with anything 
 the patient likes, drank freely just before the parox- 
 ysms, will help greatly to loosen the cough. This 
 trouble is liable to hang on so long that it is not best 
 to soak the patient every day in a pack or bath. Two 
 packs or regular warm baths per week, with thorougli 
 dry Turkish mitten friction daily all over the body, 
 followed by an oil rub wall in most casts answer all 
 purposes toward the end to be attained, that is, keeping 
 thorough elimination through the skin. If the patient 
 is old enough to understand have him resist the incli- 
 nation to cough all he possibly can. 
 
 Small Pox. 
 
 Nobody ought to have small pox any more in civil- 
 ized lands. Vaccination is a sufficient preventive, in 
 some cases making one immune for years, in other 
 cases not so long. One ought to be vaccinated with 
 bovine virus once in ten or twelve years if they arc 
 liable to be exposed to this severe malady. But there 
 is danger in vaccination unless one knows the source 
 of the virus he is using. 
 
 The remedies suggested for other eruptive diseases 
 are equally applicable to this. The addition of fre- 
 quent cool sponging during the time the fever is high 
 should not be neglected. All we have said about water 
 drinking and the use of fruit juices applies to this 
 case. Don't be afraid that packs will drive the eru])- 
 tion in. They do just the opposite. 
 
 Don't be afraid of ventilation. The heating com- 
 press will do as much as anything to keep the face 
 from pitting if cut and fitted and kept in place con- 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 251 
 
 « 
 
 stantly, removing once an hour or two and renewing 
 for cleanliness. 
 
 The awful itching may be allayed by a wash of 
 carbolic acid, one ounce, glycerine one half pint, pure 
 water one quart. Shake well before using and apply 
 three or four times a day or as often as the itching 
 becomes troublesome. 
 
 Whatever else is done don.'t neglect these simple 
 remedies. It is fortunate for humanity that these con- 
 tagious diseases seldom come to one the second time. 
 
 Felons. 
 
 Abort them by holding the finger in water as hot as 
 can be borne for about two hours. A good wav is to 
 set a cup of cold water on the stove and hold the finger 
 in it until it becomes unbearably hot. Repeat two or 
 three times in succession. This, followed with an all 
 night heating comprtss, may safely be called a sure 
 cure, if taken the first evening after the pain begins. 
 
 Eczema and Psoriasis. 
 
 These will yield quite generally to a grain and fruit 
 diet with plenty of water. Flesh and animal fats 
 must be laid aside and the skin kept clean with good 
 soap. An excellent lotion to allay irritation in almost 
 every case is made of : 
 
 2 drams Boro-glyceridc 
 
 1 dram Carbolic Acid, 
 
 10 gr. Salycilic Acid, 
 
 10 oz. Distilled Water. 
 Dissolve together in a warm place, shake and apply 
 and let it dry on. Very effective. The old notion 
 that water must not be used in Fczcnia is about a*^ 
 
252 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 • 
 fallacious as the old dead and gone notion that water 
 
 is dangerous in fevers. Some cases get well right along 
 
 under long continued applications of hot water with 
 
 just enough cold to balance up the circulation. Some 
 
 bad cases need only good soap and hot water used 
 
 ifreely and often with change of diet, to effect a cure. 
 
 Chafing and Itching. 
 
 The best remedy for chafing and itching about the 
 anus and vagina is hot and cold bathing with a good 
 rosin laundry soap. They do not dare to put deleterious 
 material in soaps that are used where long exposure 
 to the skin is necessary as in laundry work. These 
 soaps are excellent germicides for the skin. Use the 
 hot water at night and cold water in the morning. 
 Pat dry with a fluffy towel and powder with borated 
 talcum. 
 
 Small Boils and Pustules. 
 
 These will yield quickly to applications of water 
 as hot as can possibly be borne, for thirty to sixty 
 minutes (with large boils continue longer), followed 
 by a continuous compress moistened with a thin paste 
 of boric acid and water. Nothing better. Use the hot 
 applications twice daily, following in each case with 
 the acid till the cure is effected. You will begin to 
 see results the first day. 
 
 Comedo, or Black-heads and Pimples. 
 
 This unsightly, distressing condition of the face can 
 be fully relieved by oiling the face with alboline, or 
 any fine oil, and after twenty or thirty minutes squeez- 
 ing the blackheads all out. Then use hot water and 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 253 
 
 i>oocl laundry soap, or some toilet soap that you know 
 will not injure the skin, with a good Turkish towel 
 mitten. L'se the water and soap as hot as you can 
 bear it, scrubbing (|uite vigorously for four or five 
 minutes. Then change to very cold water for a min- 
 ute. Repeat three times until you have scrubbed the 
 skin as much as it will bear. Do this three times a 
 week. Meantime always bathe the face in first hot 
 and then cold water. 
 
 Be sure to avoid fried foods and all animal fats. It 
 will take three to six weeks of this kind of treatment 
 to bring thorough results. There is no drug that 
 will do any good taken internally. The cleaner and 
 purer the food and water, the less persistent will be 
 this class of trouble. A saturated solution of boric 
 acid applied at the close of the treatment and left to 
 dry on, will help to dry up the pimples. 
 
 Old Sores, Salt Rheum, or Weeping Eczma, 
 and Varicose Ulcers. 
 
 These, need continuous applications of hot water, 
 hot as can be borne for an hour at a time, two or three 
 times dail}^ and between spells, a heating compress 
 wrung out of a solution of Peroxide of Hydrogen, If 
 the ooze does not cease at once or in a few days use a 
 saturated solution of Boric Acid for the all night com- 
 press. The long continued heat is the all important 
 thing and it must be kept up to the highest point 
 endural)lc. When after two or three weeks the pro- 
 cess of healing has been well begun, the use of al- 
 ternation of cold water with the heat, changing every 
 five minutes, is in order. Lower the temperature 
 of the cold water till you have ice in it after a week 
 
254 ESSCMTIAfvS TO LIFE AND HEAIyTH 
 
 or so. The writer has seen old varicose ulcers as 
 broad as a teac.up,an.d half an inch deep get well in 
 six weeks' tirn^v ..Alternations of heat and cold should 
 be used twice or three times a week for several months 
 after healing to kgep the circulation good and prevent 
 the tissue from bf-eaking down again. 
 
 To Prevent the Hair from Falling. 
 
 Go bareheaded in the open sunlight for a while 
 each day, with ^n\^. a fore-piece to protect the eyes, 
 or with a hat, without a crown, until your head gets 
 used to the light, then you may wear your crownless 
 hat all day. .The greatest cause, probably, of falling 
 hair is wearing unventilated hats. The scalp is kept 
 too close. Go.ngestion of the brain also may be named 
 as a cause, and a severe fit of sickness will sometimes 
 produce temporary baldness. Quit worrying and let 
 your head cool off on the inside. Sunlight, and mas- 
 Sage in the: fbllowing manner are among the best 
 remedies. Hold the fingers half shut in such a position 
 that the back of. the nails may be used in rubbing the 
 scalp. Then give a vigorous massage until the scalp 
 is all aglow, ■using . only cold water to wet the roots 
 qi the hair. .A_ dozen treatments of this kind for five 
 to seven minute? vviH prevent falling, unless there are 
 parasites at the root, and a germicide is needed. Mer- 
 curial ointment ;• or Bichloride of Mercurv, about one 
 grain to two- ounces of. .water, well rubbed into the 
 scalp, is the best thing for parasites in such a case. 
 But don't forfjet. that: these are deadly poisons, espe- 
 cially the last- na.med. 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 255 
 
 Diseases Due to Damp Beds. 
 
 We speak of damp beds here to emphasize the im- 
 portance of shutting out this frequent cause of serious 
 disease. In damp weather there are very few houses 
 where the beds do not become damp. This is espe- 
 cially true on the ground Hoor. Now, if the weather 
 be at all cool under such circumstances there will 
 be a burden imposed on the vitality of those who oc- 
 cupy such beds that will prove both uncomfortable 
 and damaging. Whenever one retires to shiver and 
 chill and goes to sleep after awhile to wake and find 
 the adjacent parts of the bed feel cold and chilly to 
 the hand or foot, that is a damp bed. It is a wicked 
 loss of vitality to thus attempt night after night to 
 dry out a damp bed. Many persons have had their 
 vitality sapped and undermined by this cause until 
 they have become victims of la grippe, catarrh, pneu- 
 monia, consumption, or tuberculosis. There is no rest 
 or recuperation in such a bed. The remedy is to dry 
 out the bedding before the fireplace or stove about 
 twice a week. Always dry out the spare bed when 
 your best friend comes to stay all night with you. 
 
 Sore Eyes. 
 
 Hot fomentations with a soft sponge squeezed out 
 of water as hot as can be borne, kept up for a long 
 time and followed with a few drops of saturated 
 aqueous solution of boric acid in the eye, is a most 
 excellent remedy for nearly all soreness of the eyes. 
 If the eyes "feel full of sticks and slivers" put a drop 
 or so of glycerine, diluted with twice as much water, 
 into each eye after the fomentation process. It will 
 cause copious weeping and take away the congestion. 
 
256 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Repeat in an hour if necessary. This seems, when 
 first tried like a severe remedy, but it will do the work 
 without injury. 
 
 Old Age. 
 
 Especially is it necessary that aged people drink 
 abundantly of pure water, eat a moderate amount of 
 simple food, cast away all anxiety and take a moderate 
 amount of exercise daily. We have seen cases that 
 seemed just ready to collapse, renew their age and 
 begin to look up and plan to live and go for several 
 years giving to their friends the ripened experience 
 of a life of usefulness ; when, had not these two or three 
 simple hygienic suggestions been followed, they would 
 have sunk into an untimely grave at the age of fifty- 
 five or sixty. Mental culture and training keeps old 
 age fresh and joyous. 
 
 Gall Stones. 
 
 These are the result of nasal catarrh which has 
 worked its way downward into the stomach and bowel, 
 and thence back through the gall duct into the liver. 
 This is the declaration, in substance, of some very 
 high authorities. They are composed of a gummy 
 resinous substance called Cholosterine ; they will burn 
 like tar. Everyone of them when dry shows the hol- 
 low in the center where the pledget of mucous was, 
 around which it formed. They are the cause of many 
 serious surgical operations. No more excruciatingly 
 painful trouble comes to the body than the passing 
 of gall stones. 
 
 The best thing to prevent their forming is the 
 use of pun.', soft or distilled water. Fruit diet stands 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 257 
 
 next. Everything to keep the bile thin and prevent 
 it from hardening. Cure the catarrh and the cause 
 will be removed. They are scarcely known in soft 
 water countries. When gall stones are passing through 
 the duct the agony is most intense. This is one occa- 
 sion when we may legitimately use morphine or 
 chloroform. A hypodermic of morphine and the use 
 of chloroform just enough to keep the patient dazed, 
 but not enough to make him fully unconscious, will 
 relax the entire body, the gall ducts with the rest, and 
 ihe pressure of fluid in the gall bladder will force 
 the stone along. Surgery is sometimes necessary, 
 but the method outlined should be faithfully tried. 
 Call the physician of most experience in such cases. 
 Don't use chloroform unless you have been trained 
 to know how to use it. Great caution is needed lest 
 the heart should be in trouble and the chloroform prove 
 fatal. No untrained layman should fool with it. 
 
 If the patient could be kept in a bath at 100 to 103 
 degrees for two hours or more, you might get the 
 ^ame relaxation, but you would find the extreme of 
 Iieat would be fully as taxing to the system as the 
 "ther remedy suggested, if not more so. If you have 
 had gall stones you had better adopt the distilled 
 water and take about eight or ten glasses a day the 
 rest of your life or at least for two or three years. 
 
 Deep Vibration at the pit of the stomach is a most 
 effective means of working out the stones before they 
 become large, and a great aid in the cure of catarrh 
 of the liver which is the immediate cause of gall stones. 
 This can ))(.■ drmo best hv massace or rr xibrator. 
 
258 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Reflex Disturbances. 
 
 Reflex means almost literally "bent back." There 
 are pains and functional disturbances in the brain and 
 stomach that come from diseases of the sexual or- 
 gans. The writer once knew a woman to starve to 
 death through refusal of the stomach to take and 
 retain food. The cause was a cystic ovarian tumor. 
 The autopsy showed every organ in the body healthy 
 but that diseased ovary. It was the same kind of 
 disturbance as morning sickness in pregnancy only 
 more exaggerated. A little surgery would have saved 
 that life. Pain in the head and confusion of mind 
 may come from cold feet and stomach trouble. There 
 are many such cases. 
 
 Headaches. 
 
 These are classified under various heads, as sick, 
 nervous, congestive, and sympathetic. Sick headache 
 is usually accompanied by severe sickness at the stom- 
 ach and vomiting. The best remedy is to drink hot 
 fluids until the stomach is thoroughly cleansed out, 
 and take a big hot soap and water enema. These head- 
 aches are caused by pork eating and the free use of 
 animal fats, and tea and cofifee. Meats of any kind 
 should be used very sparingly or not at all. Eating 
 too freely of nuts and peas and beans will induce the 
 trouble. If vomiting continues after the stomach is 
 empty swallow bits of ice the size of a bean quite 
 rapidly until a tablespoonful has been taken. Repeat 
 if necessary. This is a sovereign remedy for retching 
 after the stomach is empty. 
 
 A nervous headache comes from disturbances in the 
 general nervous system by which a contracted pinched 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 259 
 
 condition of the circulation is induced in the brain. 
 Drink lots of hot lemonade or peppermint tea and 
 place the hot water bag to either the forehead or back 
 of the head ; sometimes ice to the base of the brain. 
 Oftentimes the patient has overworked his whole ner- 
 vous system until he has a fixed ache in the base of 
 the brain. This is a sure sign that he is using up 
 vitality faster than he is making it. The remedy is 
 rest, water drinking, good food and breathing exer- 
 cises, (See Lung Gymnastics) with heat and cold 
 to the spine. Massage helps greatly in these cases. 
 If aches develop about the eyes and in the forehead or 
 temples or disagreeable feelings come on in the latter 
 part of the day or after an efifort at reading or fine 
 work have the eyes properly fitted with glasses. 
 
 Congestive headache comes from too much blood in 
 the brain. If the feet are cold, always give an alter- 
 nate hot and cold foot bath, quite a vigorous general 
 massage, and cold applications to the head. Some- 
 times a good sweat is the best thing. Disturbances 
 in the solar plexus or uterus often cause headaches, 
 especially at time of menstruation. Put a hot water 
 bottle at the pit of the stomach, or at the spine just 
 opposite the stomach, or the remedies recommended 
 for painful menstruation should be used. 
 
 Chronic headaches are sometimes caused by high 
 heels or walking on a hard pavement. Remedy, wear 
 low rHbl^er heels. Do not forget that it is difficult to 
 get up a disturbance in the circulation if the blood 
 is kept diluted as it slK^uld l)c. 
 
 Sympathetic headaches arc due to disturbances in 
 other organs of the l)ody as the li\er, uterus, and 
 
260 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 bowels. Correct the local difficulty and the headaches 
 will pass very soon. 
 
 A form of headache called Migraine — one-sided head- 
 ache — is due to stomach or abdominal sympathetic 
 disturbances. Leave out the stimulants ; drink freely 
 of hot water, with a little herb flavoring; apply heat 
 and cold to the pit of the stomach ; leave out yeast 
 germs from your diet ; eat moderately of one or two 
 kinds of good food ; leave the waist band free and 
 if you have a prolapsed stomach and bowels, wear a 
 good abdominal supporter. These are the various 
 remedies, any one of which may give full relief. 
 
 Avoid phenacetine and antikamnia and all forms 
 of headache powders. They will only at the most 
 fool you for the time and in an unlucky moment may 
 cost you your life. What relief they give is caused 
 by the nervous system in its efforts to care for the 
 drug, getting up a disturbance somewhere else in the 
 body which may not be so apparent to your sensory 
 nervous system. but perhaps far more injurious to the 
 vital forces than the headache. The pain is a warn- 
 ing to you to change your habits and not a call for 
 drugs. 
 
 Prevention of Colds. 
 
 A long list of diseases are due directly to "taking 
 cold," which means simply a severe congestion in 
 some internal organ or organs ; occasionally in a sprain 
 or bruise, or a weary set of muscles. Catarrh, La 
 Grippe, I'ronchitis, Laryngitis, Lung Consumption, 
 Quinsy, Croup, Diphtheria, Pneumonia, Pleurisy, 
 Catarrhal Deafness, all these are due directly to taking 
 coUl. 'iln' germs of consumption, jmcumonia and 
 
TREATMENT ()F DISEASES 261 
 
 diphtheria would not begin to multiply did they not 
 find a weakened, fevered condition in the membranes. 
 These germs will not increase in healthy tissue at a 
 normal temperature beyond the power of the body to 
 destroy them. Let the temperature be raised two or 
 three degrees and the membranes become correspond- 
 ingly lowered in vitality and at once the germs get 
 the advantage. A healthy throat may carry diphtheria 
 germs for a week and no damage result. It is there- 
 fore evident that taking cold is a very serious affair. 
 The first thing in the way of prevention is an invigor- 
 ating even temperature; second, the body should be 
 evenly clad ; third, a pure clean atmosphere ; fourth, 
 absence of germs. People seldom take colds in coun- 
 tries where these conditions exist, where the air is 
 dry and the extremes of temperature range from 25° 
 to 100^. Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico 
 and Southern Texas and some other parts of our 
 country are exceptionally excellent in this respect. 
 In these sections and many other places in the world, 
 the people have to take very few precautions against 
 colds. In the arctic regions there is little trouble of 
 this kind because of the steady even cold and the 
 absence of germs. In the Valley of the Amazon it is 
 said that if the tourist from North America unpacks 
 his grip in the cabin of his Indian host, it means al- 
 tnost sure death to some of the family; the tourist 
 carries the germs of influenza, and the low state of 
 vital resistance, due to a continued high temperature, 
 furnish the conditions. The experienced Indian gives 
 the traveler a hammock and invites him to sleep out- 
 "^ide. In the North Temperate Zone, we have other 
 conditions to encounter. W'c have the sudden and 
 
262 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 extreme changes and the geinis combined. Now \\ hat 
 shall we do? First, develop vital resistance. This 
 can and must be done by all and every means we can 
 invent to keep the circulation well balanced. The feet, 
 and the skin of the entire body must be kept warm and 
 the circulation in them vigorous. This prevents the 
 blood from centering to the internal membranes and 
 thus raising a temperature there that will encourage 
 germ development. 
 
 Cool and cold hand and sponge baths ; cold mitten 
 friction; dry turkish towel rubs; oil rubs; alternate 
 hot and cold foot baths are the essentials. One may 
 grow into the use of these things. He should not 
 use them all at once, but from day to day use a 
 sufificiency of one or the other of these applications, 
 to keep the skin healthy and active. 
 
 Second, care for the diet, using only pure foods and 
 only in sufificient quantities to sustain nature fully and 
 of a kind to keep the bowels active, not placing a 
 heavy burden on the depurating organs by eating so 
 nuich that the body will have to weaken itself in la- 
 boring to throw out the waste. Then use water to 
 keep the circulation free as we have shown in other 
 places, and free thorough breathing as set forth under 
 diaphragm gymnastics. 
 
 Good earnest patient labor which hardens the tissue 
 without undue weariness is also an important essen- 
 tial. Sleeping in a good bed in a cool room with full 
 free ventilation ; all these things with comfortable 
 clothing and w-arm floors to insure warmth of the ex- 
 trem.ities and the average person stands a fair chance 
 to escape "colds" from year to year. 
 
 To summarize; even temperature of body, pure air. 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 263 
 
 pure food and water ; absence of germs ; where this 
 combination exists nothing more is needed. For our 
 northern climates develop vital resistance by keeping 
 the skin and extremities warm, and the circulation 
 vigorous with cool or cold baths; eat just enough 
 good food of right quality to keep the body nourished 
 and the bowels active; drink freelv of water, practice 
 full thorough breathing, have a good place, and good 
 bed to sleep in ; keep the floors in your house warm 
 and exercise moderately every day ; even, vigorous 
 exercise will not harm you if you do not go to ex- 
 tremes. 
 
 The Care of the Eyes. 
 
 Theie is a wonderful lack of judgment on the part 
 of many people in reference to the wearing of spec- 
 tacles. Many suppose that the longer they can en- 
 dure to go without them the better for the eyes. This 
 is a sorry mistake. Just as soon as there is the least 
 indication of eye weakness or disturbance after the 
 patient is four or five years old and school attendince 
 develops his infirmity, proper glasses should be fitted 
 and worn constantly. 
 
 A great majority are born with the inabilitv to focus 
 parallel rays of lipht on the retina, that is to see in 
 the distance, without an unnatural effort. These per- 
 sons have much greater difficulty to sec near objects 
 and study fine print. It is asserted 1)\- high authority, 
 that many dull scholars have become criminals or 
 grown up to useless lives just l:)ecause it was so diffi- 
 cult for them to use the eyes in study. Some good 
 oculists assert that we use up about one-third of all 
 our nervous energy with our eyes. If this is any where 
 
264 ESSENTIALS TO L,IFE AND HEALTH 
 
 near true it emphasizes the importance of having the 
 eyes supplied with all the help they need just as 
 soon as it becomes apparent that there is any de- 
 ficiency. The individual having no standard but his 
 own is a poor judge of his needs in this respect. And 
 the parents of children with deficient eyes, instead of 
 clinging to the old fable, that glasses are an evil to 
 be avoided as long as possible, should consult a well 
 trained oculist or optometrist as soon as the child com- 
 plains of his eyes or manifests dullness about his 
 studies. City and state authorities are beginning to 
 look after this matter and a better class of practitioners 
 is being developed. So there will be less excuse for 
 neglect along these lines. It is a fact that cataract or 
 hardening of the lens, and glaucoma, both not far re- 
 moved from being incurable troubles when once dis- 
 covered, are both due to abuses of the eye through 
 the neglect to provide proper correction for bad vision. 
 When this has been properly done a multitude of 
 minor difficulties will promptly disappear, and if at- 
 tended to early in life it will prevent the strain and 
 weariness from over use of the delicate structures of 
 the eye, and render serious trouble in the future, al- 
 most impossible. 
 
 Cases of St. Vitus Dance have disappeared soon 
 after proper correction of the vision with glasses. 
 Cases of sea sickness from riding on the cars, and se- 
 vere hysterical nervous symptoms often cease when 
 proper glasses are worn. 
 
 Pain. 
 
 This danger signal is set up nearly every time, by 
 the life within, whenever there is a real difficulty exist- 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 265 
 
 \ng ill the \ital domain. If the pain is promptly re- 
 lieved in a natural way, the trouble is almost every 
 time at an end. lUit if the nervous system is deadened 
 by the presence of some stront^ drug like opium or 
 cocaine, or antikamnia or phenacetine, so that it is 
 not able to sound the alarm, the body is worse off than 
 before: for now it has not only the first trouble to deal 
 with, but it must also take care of the drug and get' 
 it out of the system. 
 
 The first and best step for the relief of pain in gen- 
 eral is enough water added U) the blood to make it 
 flow naturally. This may be accomplished in most 
 cases by drinking and adding, in some cases tepid 
 enemas and letting them absorb, say half a pint to a 
 pint at a time. If the pain shows the presence of 
 poisons in the alimentary canal, they should be washed 
 out as soon as possible by copious drinking of hot 
 germicide affusions, like hot lemonade and hot pepper- 
 mint tea and by full warm soap suds enema. Hot ex- 
 ternal applications, (over a painful part) will almost 
 always give relief. They should be applied gener- 
 ously. There are a few cases where heat will not 
 give relief. Then use very cold water or exen ice. 
 In some cases the alternate use of heat and cold will 
 be most effective. Massage may be used in nearly 
 all cases and l)ecomes a most efificient helj) if the pre- 
 caution of thinning the blond is looked after. Elec- 
 tricity is a very \aluable aid in deep seated nerve pain 
 and often accomplishes more than hot or cold appli- 
 cations. All these procedures stir up the circulation 
 and send along the old blood and fluids containing 
 the offending i)oisons to be cast out of the body in- 
 stead of remaining to make trinible. 
 
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266 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 In the passing- of gall stones, or renal calculi, we 
 have trouble that is too deep for ordinary external 
 applications. Here we have a good excuse for relax- 
 ing the tissues with sedatives or anesthetics so that 
 the obstruction can pass. There are but few cases, 
 however, where this becomes necessary. So the in- 
 discriminate use of sedative drugs cannot be justified 
 and their use should never be attempted only under 
 the direction of a wise physician. 
 
 That awful ache in the lower, back portion of the 
 brain, is the forerunner of any one of several disasters, 
 unless you call a halt. It means that you are using 
 up vitality faster than you are manufacturing it. You'd 
 better take a rest and go to practicing vibratory 
 breathing or take lessons in learning how to do it, so 
 as to get your laboratory in order. You will thus 
 increase the production of vital energy. At the same 
 time discontinue all stimulants, even tea and coffee. 
 Stop using the lash on the tired horse. Give him a 
 rest and some good feed. Massage or Osteopathy and 
 alternate applications of heat and cold to the spine and 
 l)ase of the brain will work wonders. Begin easy 
 and gradually increase the vigor of the manipulation. 
 An ocean voyage, a visit to the country, three months 
 in a sanitarium are all good in such cases. Which you 
 should do all depends on the length of your purse and 
 your physical condition in general. But rest you 
 must have. Anxiety and worry and all care should 
 be laid aside until production of vital energy overtakes 
 consumption. This symptom comes to the world's 
 workers and burden bearers, to men and women who 
 are carrying loads that do not belong to them. Cast 
 these burdens overboard for a part of the time at least. 
 
J TREATMENT OF DISEASES 267 
 
 and give life a chance to assert itself before paralysis 
 in some form or nervous prostration overtakes yon. 
 If life is worth living let us live it right. 
 
 In some cases hard leather heels and a hard pave- 
 ment or floor will account for back ache and back 
 headache. Have very low rubber heels put on yomr 
 shoes at once and relief will be immediate, if due to 
 this cause. 
 
 Locomotor Ataxia. ^ 
 
 The symptoms of this disease are due to the gradiral 
 failure of the motor nerve fibers of the spinal cord. 
 It is a very progressive disease, slowly but gradually 
 continuing till it ends in dissolution. 
 
 Ninety per cent of the cases have been traced di- 
 rectly to syphilis, a disease due generally to lust 
 alone. It is a most awful penalty for the violation of 
 the law of chastity, to have to perish by such a pain- 
 fully humiliating process. 
 
 The only remedy which will even stay the progress 
 of the disease partially is a system of coordinate e*c- 
 ercises as set forth b}- Doctor Frankel in his work 
 on "The Treatment of Tabetic Ataxia," to which we 
 refer the reader. It is published by P. Blackiston's 
 Son & Co., Philadelphia. 
 
 We might mention two or three other diseases, and 
 their hundreds of consequences, which are due mi^t 
 often to sexual sins but they are so well known that 
 we forbear. These diseases are on the increase. There 
 are enough living object lessons of this kind to cau*;e 
 men and women to revolt at the thought of indulgence 
 which leads to such direful consequences. 
 
 Physicians there are, who assert that syphilis is 
 
268 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 curable, but it is evident to the writer from the testi- 
 mony of scores of reputable physicians, and from the 
 miserable end of the most of these wrecks he has 
 inet, that all such claims are groundless. There is 
 mone}' in this filthy practice; that is the motive 
 prompting the promise of cure. 
 
 ■ It is true that mercurial preparations will produce 
 another cause of oiifence in the body and thus divide 
 the energies of the body in the fight against syphilitic 
 poison, so that the latter symptoms become less prom- 
 inent. But still the man can bequeath to his ofifspring 
 (\\Q hereditary syphilitic symptoms. 
 
 General Remarks. 
 
 ■ Whenever the treatment is soothing and comforting 
 to the patient you are on the right road. In all cases 
 of severe disturbance in the body if the patient goes 
 to sleep under the treatment without sedative drugs 
 the treatment is having a good effect. Then just keep 
 the surface of the body warm, especially the feet and 
 limbs, and you will thus keep the volume of blood 
 at the surface, and prevent it returning to the parts 
 that may have geen congested, and your patient will 
 be carried along steadily and smoothly toward a good 
 recovery. 
 
 ' Sleep is the great restorer. Never disturb the 
 patient's slumbers to give him food, treatment or 
 medicine. 
 
 Never get excited over any case of trouble and ''lose 
 your head"; and don't let excitable, fidgety people 
 have anything to do with caring for the sick. 
 
 Don't undertake to give anv treatment unless vou 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES 26^ 
 
 are clear in your own mind as to what oujuht tt) be 
 done. 
 
 Jn acute cases do not urge food upon tlie patienf 
 till he manifests a desire for nourishment. There is 
 no danger of the patient suffering for want of food, 
 mitil the body has begun to call for it. 
 
 In chronic cases you are generally safe in urging 
 the patient to use freely of water in various ways and 
 with a variety of flavorings. 
 
 Go over the principles contained in this volume 
 until you are familiar with them. Every time you 
 study any one of the Seven Essentials and the Laws 
 of Health relating to it, some new, clearer conceptions 
 of Hygienic truth will dawn upon you. 
 
 r>e not satisfied till you know what preventioiv 
 means and how to secure it. Then you will have very, 
 little trouble with the giving of treatments for thej; 
 will not often be needed. 
 
 Do not wait until you are sick, before you begin to 
 care for your capital of health. Don't wait till old 
 General Debility has marshalled his formidable hosts 
 to conquer you. 
 
CHAPTER X, 
 
 Pointers, 
 
 the Mouth. 
 
 A clean mouth is the portal: to a clean alimentary 
 canal. Many obscure cases of wretchedness get well 
 as soon as the old decayed teeth are removed, and 
 proper filling and plate worJ< is done. Clean the teeth 
 on rising and on retiring, and after each meal. A 
 good brush adapted to the conditions, with tooth 
 powder made of nine parts precipitated chalk, and one 
 part calcined magnesia, with a trifle of orris root and 
 a little faithful deliberate work will accomplish the 
 result. Keep your brush cleansed with soda and water, 
 a' teaspoonful to each cupful. Cinnamon water is an 
 excellent mouth wash ; one part Cinnamon Essence 
 to ten of water. 
 
 Regulate the Appetite. 
 
 Good things ought to taste good. If they do not you 
 had better regulate the appetite. If good things do 
 taste good do not be afraid they are unhygienic; just 
 hold on to the appetite a little. 
 
 Persistence Required. 
 
 If people would exercise one quarter the persistence 
 in learning to like good things that the young fellow 
 does in learning to like tobacco, wonderful reforms in 
 
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 table habits would promptly follow. See how that 
 young fellow sticks, and hangs, and tries to learn to 
 like that nasty weed. How sick it makes him. Why, 
 he acts inspired with persistence. We reckon he is; 
 but it can't be an inspiration from above. Oh ! didn't 
 it make him sick? You say he liked it before he 
 could run alone? Then all the more blame to those 
 who will pass these hereditary appetites on to their 
 children and grandchildren. Tobacco and strong 
 drink are getting a firm hold on mankind through 
 hereditary transmission of appetite alone. 
 
 Chewing. 
 
 Chew as you ought to if you would digest as you 
 w-ant to. 
 
 The Epicure. 
 
 In his haste, this man often loses the very thing he 
 is most anxious to secure — the flavor of the food. 
 Deliberation is part of the price paid for good diges- 
 tion and enjoyment. 
 
 Better eat too little, and eat it well, than eat too 
 much and do it poorly. The act of chewing sets the 
 digestive fluids to flowing, so chew thoroughly. 
 
 Bulk in Food. 
 
 In choosing food supplies remember bulk is just as 
 necessary as nutrition. Don't let any one condemn 
 cabbage or turnips or celery or any other bulky food, 
 just because its percentage of nutrition is low. The 
 alimentary canal must have inilk in the food for me- 
 chanical stimulation. The skin of some fruits is not 
 to be rejected as useless. Plums, prunes, nectarines and 
 
272 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 cherries, for best bowel results, should be eaten skins 
 and all. Grape skins are not injurious but the seeds 
 should be rejected, in many cases. The bran of the 
 wheat and rye should be ground fine and left in the 
 flour. This sugegstion will help wonderfully in the 
 cure of constipation. There are a few weak, sensi- 
 tive cases where caution is needed in the use of bulk. 
 Where looseness is the habit use less coarse material 
 and avoid fruit skins; also in prolapse of the stomach. 
 
 Graham Flour. 
 
 This is only another name for whole wheat ground 
 up bran and all, into fine meal or flour. It received its 
 name from Sylvester Graham, who for many years 
 traveled in the United States and advocated the use 
 of wheat meal. He was perhaps the pioneer food re- 
 former in this country. True Graham flour is a hard 
 thing to find nowadays. It is mostly made from poor 
 dour and coarse bran thrown together with a shovel, 
 and called by the mill roustabout "Slioxcl (u-aham." 
 
 "Whole Wheat Flour or Entire Wheat Flour. " 
 
 The article now sold in most stores under this name 
 is not whole wheat flour. The bran is mostly left out 
 and a good share of the starch. It is a middlings 
 product in the long roller process of flour making. 
 There are excellent liand mills today that will pre- 
 fectly grind wheat and corn and rye, just as fine as 
 it need be. So the people may produce their own 
 wheat flour if they will, and have it fresh every day. 
 There is a commercial reason for nf)t putting nut whole 
 wheat floTir in great cjuantities, as is done with the 
 other fl(nu-. The germ of the wheat contains the oil 
 
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 of the grain. It the germ is ground into the flour, 
 this oil in warm weather turns rancid and attracts the 
 moths, and at once you have wormy flour. The only 
 sure way is to go back to first methods and produce 
 your flour fresh as it is needed in your own home. 
 Then you get the full supply of bone making material 
 as well as all the other nutritive elements. 
 
 This is the only way to escape having to use the 
 starved, bleached products which are now about the 
 only forms in which wheat in flour is offered to the 
 public. 
 
 Boiled Wheat, Rye or Corn. 
 
 Slightly brown the grain in the oven in a large 
 dripping pan. being cautious not to get the oven too 
 hot ; or take a small quantity in the spider or skillet 
 with a cover. Heat this on top of the stove, shaking 
 frequently to get an even brown. If the grain is 
 slightly popped or cracked with the heat all the better. 
 Grain treated in this way will cook whole in less than 
 half the time that raw grain requires. If slightly 
 cracked it cooks quicker or may be eaten without cook- 
 ing, lliis iircparation is more nearly the food of the 
 ancients than most of tlu' so-called health foods. 
 Raisins or an}- whole dried fruit which will keep its 
 shape make a wonderfull\' nice addition if cooked into 
 these dishes. Very few know the worth of these grains 
 until they have tried this method of preparation and 
 combination. Two or three meals of this kind of food 
 each week will do much to cure slowness of the in- 
 testines. 
 
 Rolled wheat, rn- rolk-d oats or barlc\-, or rice, or 
 
274 ESSENTIALS TO LIKE AND HEALTH 
 
 cornmeal are very much nicer and more appetizing 
 for a change if slightly browned before cooking. 
 
 Crinklets. 
 
 Here is a new, home made, pretty article of baked 
 goods. Make a very stiff dough of graham, whole 
 wheat, or white flour with nothing in it but cream 
 or cooking oil for shortening, a small amount of milk 
 for wetting and a little salt. Be sure your dough is 
 very stiiT. Now as soon as this will hold together, run 
 it through a vegetable chopper using the coarse disc. 
 After putting it through three or four times until it is 
 much like cracker dough, the last time it comes out- 
 catch it on a dripping tin as it comes through, moving 
 the tin about so as to distribute evenly the crinklets 
 of dough. You will find it elegant when nicely made 
 and baked. 
 
 Unpolished Rice. 
 
 About one-half of the really important nutritive ele- 
 ments are scoured off the ordinary rice of commerce. 
 We refer to the gluten and bone-making material 
 which, as in the other grains, lies nearest the surface. 
 These are sacrificed for appearance in an endeavor to 
 please a false notion about refinement which prevails 
 among most civilized peoples. 
 
 Japan feeds her army and her people on the un- 
 polished rice. Thanks to the prevailing good sense 
 of some of our dietetic reformers, this exceedingly 
 wholesome and palatable grain can now be had in the 
 markets of civilized America, owing to the demand 
 that has recently arisen for it. 
 
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 Gruels and Soups. 
 
 Gruel made of cornmeal, oatmeal, wheatmeal or 
 pearled barley and water, with a little cream and salt 
 is the best thing to start on after a prolonged attack 
 of stomach or bowel difficulty. ^lake very-thin and 
 boil one to four hours. Use whichever grain the 
 patient likes best. They are all about equally good, 
 and may be used freely without danger. Good in mod- 
 erate quantities after typhoid fever. Cook longest 
 for the invalids. 
 
 One of the world's great men who for many years 
 has stood at the head of one of the great schools of 
 medicine, prescribes cornmeal gruel as a staple article 
 of food in the great majority of cases. This is not a 
 matter of hearsay, but of personal knowledge. 
 
 Bean and pea soups, made very thin with beans put 
 through the sieve to take out all the skins, or with 
 split peas, is also most excellent. These liquid foods, 
 gruels and soups, almost always set good on the weak 
 stomach and they are infinitely better than beef tea 
 or meat extracts which are very little more than a 
 solution of waste animal poisons. 
 
 The Fireless Cooker. 
 
 This recent new invention is all right, if made right. 
 Just the thing where long cooking is required. 
 
 Sterilized Bread. 
 
 Put a cup of water in the oven when baking yeast 
 bread and bake slowly two and a half to three hours; 
 the long continued heat destroys the yeast germs, so 
 this bread is free fium yeast ferments and is just as 
 
276 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 good if not better than zwieback. People who have 
 been troubled with gas in the stomach or asthma will 
 find this bread about as harmless as well cooked rice, 
 even if eaten before it is cold. 
 
 Shortening. 
 
 This seems yet to be a necessity, as it was in the 
 days of Elijah, when he boarded with the widow of 
 Zarephath (I Kings, 17), or in the days when the 
 Levitical Priests ate fried cakes. (Lev. 7:12-14.) But 
 the question now is a return from animal to- vegetable 
 fats. This change is very distressing to some people, 
 as most changes are after the middle of life. But we 
 have the good things now if we will only select and 
 use them. For the country people sterilized cream and 
 butter stand first, then there is plain cotton oil under 
 several names for everybody. And we have corn oil 
 and olive oil and peanut oil and mustard oil and nut 
 oils. But b}' far the most reasonable of these in price 
 if bought in quantity is the cotton oil. The writer 
 some fifteen years ago spent several months' time in- 
 vestigating the cottonseed and oil. He found the nat- 
 ural barrier to the use of cottonseed oil was the fact 
 that in most cotton growing countries the seed be- 
 came rancid in the boll from rain and lieat just be- 
 fore picking. .\t least one seccl in from three to five 
 in every l)oll l)eing very dark and rancid. (_)il made 
 from this seed requires too nnu-li refining to make it 
 fit for use. Oil from seed grown in countries like 
 Egypt, India, and Texas, or Imperial \"alley, Cali- 
 fornia, or Old Mexico, where no rain falls during the 
 ])icking season is much purer and cleaner, and requires 
 
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 H i 
 
 little refiiiini;" to make it excellent. The oil made from 
 corn germ or chit is very fine; so is peanut oil. 
 
 This corn oil is produced in the Mississippi Valley, 
 where large quantities of corn are prepared for ship- 
 ment to Mediterranean ports, by stripping it of the 
 chit or germ. Prepared in this way it will stand ship- 
 ment to, and keep well, in hot climates, because the oil 
 is mostly removed in the germ. Otherwise the oil in 
 the germ becomes rancid and attracts the moths and 
 the grain soon becomes wormy and ruined. This in- 
 dustry helped raise the price of corn in ^Mississippi 
 Valley from twenty-five cents in 1898 to sixty cents 
 in 1908. The trade was secured in Europe through 
 demonstrations at the Paris I'^xposition in \9Q0. 
 
 ]\Iuch has been said in favor of olive oil. lUit oli\e 
 oil must be made from sound fruit or it is not as good 
 as cotton oil. Unadulterated olive oil sometimes leaves 
 a smart in the throat a few minutes after swallowing 
 it. This is due to the fact that the fruit from whicli 
 it was made was decayed at the pit. Good cotton oil 
 is much better than this. Indeed most of the European 
 olive oil used in America, is more than half cotton 
 oil. This rancid olive oil is as unfit for use as any 
 other rancid oil. 
 
 Animal products are becoming so diseased that we 
 nuist soon quit cream and butter and we ought to be 
 reaching out to find something to take their place. The 
 body must have some fats or disasters will overtake 
 us in the form of malnutrition, constipation. l)oils, etc.. 
 but use all shortening sparingly, as a ciunparatively 
 moderate aniduiu onh- is needed. 
 
278 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Cucumbers. 
 
 This popular vegetable contains but about six per 
 cent of nutrition. It is, however, a most excellent 
 relish in spite of its being quite indigestible for many 
 people. It will be much better appreciated generally 
 when everybody learns that it can be greatly improved 
 by cooking. Pare and slice and stew in just a little 
 water for thirty to forty minutes. Then season with 
 salt and lemon juice and a little salad oil. You will 
 be quite sure to enjoy cucumbers in this style and they 
 will digest well. 
 
 Cabbage — How to Cook. 
 
 Take two quarts of water or a little less, put into 
 this about one-eight to one-sixth of a teaspoonful of 
 common soda. Boil the cabbage in this till tender, 
 season with salt and squeeze out of this water. Cooked 
 in this manner almost anyone can eat cabbage with- 
 out injurv. 
 
 Beans. 
 
 Parboiled in the same kind of a solution as above 
 for twenty-five minutes and then changed to clear 
 water and finished, will be found much more digestible 
 than cooked in the ordinary way. 
 
 Mixture and Variety. 
 
 I knew a man well, in my boyhood when health 
 reform was young, who was making the efifort to 
 learn how to live. He was a very slow spoken man 
 and sometimes drawled his words out. One day at the 
 table he took his bowl of milk and put into it a little 
 of each of the articles of food that were on the table. 
 
!!V•^■M POINTERS - . 219 
 
 As he was doing" this he said, "I don't know but it's 
 just as well to mix the food afore it goes into the 
 stomach as afterwards." When he had it all well in- 
 corporated he took up and poured out a spoonful, say- 
 ing as he did so, "I don't know but it'll kill mc." The 
 looks of the mess was what affected his mind. Many 
 a soul is afraid it will kill them when some awful 
 pain of indigestion follows an overdose of the wrong 
 kind of mixtures of food. If people would plan to 
 have only two or three staple articles at each meal 
 and make a whole meal of them it would save much 
 suffering and ill health. There would be far less 
 danger of over eating and the food taken would nour- 
 ish the body better than a larger quantity because it 
 would be better digested. 
 
 Many a good faithful housewife has worked her 
 life out of her trying to provide variety for her family 
 and guests, when she might by simplifying the bill 
 of fare have found time for recreation and recupera- 
 tion and mental culture ; and perpetuated a life of 
 usefulness, to be a blessing for many years longer, to 
 her family and friends. And the family too, having 
 been trained to a life of simplicity, would have 'been 
 better physically, morally and socially. Tlie civilized 
 world today is suffering untold loss and damage be- 
 cause of the cravings of uncurbed appetites for un- 
 necessary variety and richness in food. It has been 
 well said that "thousands are digging their graves 
 with their teeth." But that unbridled fellow back of 
 the teeth, Mr. Appetite, is the responsible party, and 
 someone before him is to blame for permitting that 
 young Appetite to develop his depraved cravings. Ap- 
 
280 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 petite will soon learn to behave himself, if he is curbed 
 and bridled for awhile as he should be. 
 
 A few sugi^estions will be of service to those who 
 care to improve their table habits. 
 
 Good Combinations. 
 
 1. Any kind of grain foods and vegetables with 
 milk and eggs, for those with whom the last two 
 agree. 
 
 2. Grains and fruits except the very acid fruits, 
 like lemons. 
 
 3. Grains and meats. 
 
 4. Vegetables and meats. 
 
 5. Potatoes and mild fruits may be considered good 
 for some. 
 
 6. Beans or peas and rice or other grains. 
 
 7. Fruits and nuts. 
 
 8. Grains and nuts. 
 
 Bad Combinations. 
 
 1. Vegetables and fruits. 
 
 2. Very acid fruits and starchy foods. Never drink 
 lemonade with the meal, and never mix lemons and 
 starch in cooking. Avoid lemon pie unless you have 
 a giant stomach. 
 
 3. Meats and fruits. 
 
 4. Meats and milk. 
 
 5. Milk and acid fruits. 
 
 6. Milk and sugar only in very small quantities. 
 
 7. Meats and eggs. 
 
 These rules are for the moderately healthy. Those 
 with poor digestion will have to exercise a little closer 
 discrimination in varietv than others. 
 
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 More About Varieties in Foods. 
 
 The world is full of variety in food products. Every 
 climate has its own special kinds and generally they 
 are sufficient for the people of that climate. But 
 modern civilization and invention and the spirit of 
 commercialism lia\o l)rou£^ht to civilized man more 
 variety than he really needs. If we had but a score 
 of kinds to choose from, there would not be one-fourth 
 the trouble there now is in choosing. The abundance 
 makes the matter of choosing combinations hazardous. 
 
 The common every day people of Europe are little 
 troubled with dyspepsia because their regular fare of 
 "black bread" and soup and a few vegetables does 
 not stimulate the appetite to over-indulgence. It is 
 wealth, luxury and idleness that are most often over- 
 taken by disasters. The ruin of ancient Sodom was 
 "pride, fulness of bread and abundance of idleness," 
 and failure to provide for the needy. 
 
 Variety stimulates overeating. People seldom oat 
 pie and cakes and desserts, when they are hungry. 
 These things are left till the appetite has been fairly 
 well satisfied with the staple articles and then, gen- 
 erally speaking, an unnecessary burden is foisted upon 
 the digestive organs by putting down a quantity of 
 food that is not really needed just because it tickles 
 the palate. 
 
 Financial prosperity tempts the common people to 
 imitate wealth and luxury, so that those same people 
 of luirope whom we have just mentioned, when once 
 they were well established in America, began to in- 
 dulge their ai)petites far beyond the custom of their 
 old world home and thousands of this class can testify 
 to dyspeptic and other digestive distur]);uues wliicii 
 
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282 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 overtook them after a few years" residence in this 
 country. More than likely these diseased conditions 
 were charged up to the climate of America. Much 
 of their trouble might be traced to the use of fine 
 Hour instead of the whole grain meal of their home 
 land. 
 
 The Iree use of sugar and condiments stimulates in- 
 dulgence beyond all the necessities of the body. V\'e 
 are not speaking to discourage the true pleasures of 
 appetite. When the over-gorging of the stomach leads 
 to pain, or after distress, or discomfort, it is quite 
 proper to inquire about the wisdom of the indulgence. 
 Leaving out the mixtures and satisfying the taste on 
 a few plain foods would seem to be the part of good 
 sense, especially when physical peace and quietness 
 so soon bear witness to the wisdom of the restraints 
 which l)rought such happy results. 
 
 Variety is perfectly safe and we may eat the entire 
 l)ill of fare and enjoy life if we only choose a few 
 months instead of a few minutes in which to swallow^ 
 it. Three or four kinds of food at a meal are enough 
 for any occasion. 
 
 A clear head and a steady nerve are a much more 
 valuable possession than a distended stomach, ])ain- 
 ful bowels, a disordered lixer, and rheumatic joints, 
 and a fully satisfied, depraved appetite. 
 
 Whatever course you pursue you will get your pay 
 as you go. If you trace the relation between cause 
 and elTect you will not be long in choosing the right 
 way after it has been definitely pointed out to you. 
 The laws of nature do not wait the day of judgment 
 before the infliction of the penalty. 
 
 Sometimes you may not be able to trace elTect back 
 
POINTERS 283 
 
 to cause on account of tlic Ion*;' continued habit. You 
 may have been trained from chihlhood into excesses 
 that have ruined your liealth. The wise practitioner 
 will be able to ])oint out to _\'ou the causes and you 
 will no doubt be wise enough to begin to feel your 
 way l)ack into the right way. Of all dietetic errors 
 the habit of consuming too many kinds at once is the 
 greatest. 
 
 The Evening Meal. 
 
 Of all the meals of the day this should be the lightest 
 and least taxing to the digestive system. The night 
 i.s the time when nature, through sleep, repairs the 
 waste tissues of the body, bearing" out the old wornout 
 cell structure and replacing it with new. This is not 
 the time to ini])<isi.' a heavy burden of labor on the 
 \ital ner\'ous system in the preparation of new ma- 
 terial, or the disposal of a large quantity of material 
 not actually needed. 
 
 In our rush to keep in pace with the world, we rise 
 from a disturbed sleep, half rested, without any appe- 
 tite and hastily rinse down a slice of toast with a cup of 
 coffee, or some other meager luorsel. \\'c get into the 
 whirl, and at noon make another rush at luncheon anc) 
 swallow, perha])s a fair meal, so (|uickl\' that it is not 
 wdrtli half price to us because it is so ]ioorlv chewed 
 iir rinsed down that the body gets but ])artial benefit 
 out ol it. Then at e\ening coiues the time of most 
 deliberation. We sit (Imwii to a full meal of the 
 most heart}' foods. This imposes the greatest burden 
 on the body when it should have the least; and it is 
 no woiuler that the body has hard work to shake ofl 
 its lethargv and get out at an carlv hour the next 
 
284 ESSENTIALS TO EIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 ■morning. It is not strange that the digestive organs 
 
 are not ready to invite other burdens when exhausted 
 
 •from the overwork of the preceding night. The energy 
 
 •that ought to have been used chiefly for distributing 
 
 •the products prei)ared from the previous day has been 
 
 obliged to look after a new supply of raw material 
 
 and thus divided could not half do its legitimate work. 
 
 The only way out of this condition of things is to 
 
 reverse the order of quantity and quality and carry the 
 
 habit of deliberation over to the morning and noon 
 
 hours. Light meals at evening will give better rest 
 
 ■for the night. The body will awaken refreshed and 
 
 rising earlier will be prepared to deliberately receive 
 
 • and relish a full meal. 
 
 Digestion is greatly promoted by the moderate ac- 
 tivity of the body and thus the food material taken 
 early in the day is much better prepared for nourish- 
 
 • ing the body. Full meals in the morning and at noon 
 make only a light meal at night necessary, and this 
 makes possible a lull night of refreshing sleep. Full 
 meals at night disturb the rest, or at least make it 
 
 I 
 
 ■less refreshing, spoil the appetite for breakfast and 
 disorder the workings of both mind and body. 
 
 The early morning hours should be the brightest and 
 
 • best of the day, mentally. Much of the morning snarl- 
 ■ ing and sniveling would cease if the evening meal 
 
 were composed of a very moderate quantity of easily 
 : digested foods like rice or other grain foods with a 
 iittlc fruit or with a little cream and milk. 
 
 The nightmares and night terrors will cease troub- 
 ling the soul that is not disturbed by heavy rich sup- 
 ■pers. 
 
 Snoring will be less troublesome; for the inxoluntary 
 
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 nervous system not exhausted with the heavy work* 
 of handling a hearty meal will be toned up so that it 
 will hold the mouth shut and thus prevent snoring. 
 
 Quantity of Food Required. 
 
 This all depends on the person, size, weight, occu-" 
 pation and temperament, and general state of the' 
 health, and how it is eaten. Most people eat too much 
 by at least one-third. The man working with brain 
 and muscle eight or ten hours out of twenty-four, can" 
 use more than the man who sits at the desk all day. 
 Brain work is more wearing than physical labor, and 
 in order to handle the amount of food necessary, the' 
 brain worker must put in at least two or three hours' 
 of moderate all around exercise every day. 
 
 Physical activity enables the body to care success-' 
 fully for a larger auKnint i>f food than the sedentary 
 man can safely use. 
 
 Children ten to fourteen require about as much food 
 as adults if they are kept busy. 
 
 If the entire family is trained to deliberation and 
 joyfulness at the table the bodily wants will be fully 
 met by a less quantity of food well chewed and taken" 
 with cheerfulness. Most people need to curb their 
 appetites lest they eat too much. 
 
 It is safe to say that from twenty-four to forty- 
 eight ounces per day. of any solid food is sutTicient for 
 the average person if he has been trained into proper 
 mastication of the food, and proper drinking habits. 
 Hard labor would make a larger amount necessary in. 
 some cases. 
 
286 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 How to Eat. 
 
 Bring home to your meals the best news you can 
 get, the best and most interesting stories, the best 
 and most hopeful plans and everything to make all 
 the family glad you came to dinner. A moderate mix- 
 ture of good hearty laughter shakes up the digestive 
 organs and is better for an hour after meals than 
 any after dinner pills. Don't be in a hurry with each 
 mouthful. Take time ; you'll get more strength and 
 comfort out of a mouthful well chewed and insalivated 
 than out of two mouthfuls swallowed whole, beside 
 you are liable to get some distress out of the two 
 mouthfuls. Better eat half as much when very weary 
 than to take a full meal. You will feel better in the 
 morning. 
 
 Light suppers of rice and cream or fruits ; or of 
 corn or oatmeal or graham gruel and fruit or graham 
 crackers ; or baked potatoes and cream with good 
 bread and butter; any such kinds and combinations 
 will insure a better night's rest than a full meal of 
 hearty foods. Let the heavy meal be taken either 
 in the morning or between noon and three P. M. 
 He who eats light suppers will ha\e an appetite for 
 breakfast. 
 
 Peanut Butter. 
 
 Don't be deceived into thinking this or any other 
 specially i)rc|)ared nut food is essential to life. Ueally 
 peanuts are not nuts at all. If you are going to eat 
 them you had better grind them in your own mill. 
 Any nuts well chewed and insalivated will digest 
 twice as well as any conglonu-ration of prepared nuts 
 
POINTERS 287 
 
 that were ever put on the market. We have been 
 throuoh the experience. 
 
 Mushes. 
 
 J^on't be afraid of mushes, just because some one 
 who has dry prepared foods to sell cries them down. 
 If mushes are well cooked, say for one hour, and eaten 
 slowly with a little dry food to chew on and no yeast 
 bread eat^n with them, not one person in twenty will 
 suffer any special harm from them. Yeast germs are 
 tenfold more harmful than any w^ell cooked mushes. 
 Those who just now are running all to dry diet seem 
 to forget that God puts up a large share of the best 
 human aliment in a very juicy form. How about the 
 fruits and green foods. We believe in dry foods too, 
 but don't let any of us get one-sided. Good graham 
 mush has cured thousands of cases of constipation in 
 by-gone days. The highly dextrinized food products 
 are bringing back intestinal slowness for those who 
 are unwise enough to confine themselves to them 
 exclusively. There is no design back of this, we have 
 no mush to sell. Do not, however, undertake to live 
 on mushes. 
 
 Highly Dextrinized Foods. 
 
 Starches which have been subjected to a high degree 
 of dry heat for a long time until thoroughly browned 
 are partly changed into dextrin, which is one step 
 nearer the sugar form, into which the starch is finally 
 changed by the process of digestion. 
 
 This dextrinized starch is changed to sugar by the 
 saliva. If the starch is eaten without being dextrin- 
 
288 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 ized, the work of chaiif^ing- to sugar is carried forward 
 to the intestines. 
 
 Now while this process of dextrinizing is a good 
 thing' for a time, for a few cases of weak stomach 
 digestion ; if long continued on the part of anyone it 
 will result in bowel inactivity, just because the burden 
 of work has been taken ofif the bowels. Already in 
 some institutions where dextrinization has become a 
 fad, they are furnishing their patients with high priced, 
 specially prepared, scientific laxatives to 'meet the 
 demands of the situation. If people would leave the 
 yeast germs out of their breads there would be lit- 
 tle or no excuse for making zweiback, which is the 
 name for dextrinized bread. If people must make 
 yeast bread they can destroy the germs out of the 
 bread by long baking. (See Sterilization of Bread in 
 this Chapter.) 
 
 It is these yeast germs that do most of the harm 
 in the stomach. Leaving out this ofifending material 
 from the stomach and toning it into activity with vi- 
 bratory breathing and other kindred remedies, seems 
 more reasonable than disabling another part of the 
 alimentary canal by taking away the necessity for its 
 activity. Over cooking the food is no advantage to a 
 fairly comfortable stomach. 
 
 Raw foods, even grains like wheat flakes and oat 
 flakes, arc proving to be a good thing in many cases 
 of stomach and bowel difficulty. But not every one 
 should try to make their full bill of fare from raw 
 foods. There is a medium ground that is safest. Some 
 cases of slow intestinal digestion should take some 
 raw wheat ilakes or practically raw wdieat bran daily 
 for a few weeks if the stomach is fairlv strong. Again 
 
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 it the stomach is weak it may be best and necessary, 
 to help out its work of digestion for a brief tim-e with 
 dextrinized foods ; but damage is ahnost sure to result 
 if long continued without some foods that require 
 special bowel digestion. 
 
 Rest the stomach from the burden of working over 
 mixtures of food; practice, five minutes out of every 
 hour, rapid breathing exercises, and make a business 
 of it for a time after retiring and before rising; take 
 massage, or mechanical vibration, or gentle horseback 
 riding; use sun baths to the stomach and abdomen; 
 try hot and cold alternations over the stomach; attend 
 to the advice concerning the treatment of dyspepsia 
 and you will not need to distress yourself over your 
 stomach conditions. A little zweiback for a part of 
 the meal will not hurt you, but don't try to live on it. 
 Use some foods that will require bowel activity. And 
 after you have done the best you know all around, 
 give your mind a rest and endeavor to be so peaceful 
 that general quietness will take possession of your 
 entire being. And don't use up your vital energies 
 worrying about your case. Just be as happy as you 
 can be ; and be happ}^ anyway. 
 
 Regularity. 
 
 The sun rises and sets and the seasons return with 
 unvarying regularity. The earth fields its fruitage at 
 uniformly recurring periods. The healthy human heart 
 beats and the diaphragm acts rhythmically. If we 
 want to be in harmony with our environment we 
 should adopt regular habits in all things. The time 
 of sleeping should be observed closely, and the time 
 of the meals should not varv bevond a few minutes. 
 
290 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 There should be stated times for doing the nn)st of 
 onr drinking. These arc matters of great importance, 
 both for physical health and for mental and moral 
 discipline. There is much complaint in these days 
 from civilized men and women that they cannot con- 
 trol their thoughts. It is the writer's opinion that 
 this comes largely from irregularity in physical habits. 
 The railroads, the steamship lines, the mail service 
 and everything of consequence in this world runs 
 with, or attempts to run, with regularity. Men have 
 to keep their appointments or fall out of the line. So 
 in our daily habits, we should so shape our daily con- 
 duct that we have a set time for every meal, a set 
 time for retiring and rising, set times for taking a 
 full drink of water, and set times for attending to 
 nature's calls. Then the life forces and cells that take 
 care of the body will be able to work with precision 
 and without disappointment. The man who works 
 with his brain must have regular times for physical 
 recuperation; and the man who labors with his mus- 
 cles should have time for mental discipline and recrea- 
 tion. The bodily functions must be kept well bal- 
 anced, then will the health be on an c(]uilibrium and 
 life will run smoothly. 
 
 Salt 
 
 Use it moderately. The surgeons have found out 
 tliat a solution of a teaspoonful to a pint, using dis- 
 tilled water, (called normal salt solution,) may be 
 injected into the blood and save the patient's life in 
 bad cases of bleeding and anemia. The patient re- 
 vives promptly. Large quantities hinder digestion 
 and high authorities say that it produces gout, taken 
 
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 excessively. The writer has seen the incipient stages 
 of gout disappear just in a few days, in a patient who 
 had been greatly addicted to salt, when the salt was 
 discarded ; and seen it return again when the salt 
 was used freely. Tiie base of the salt is sodium which 
 may sometimes be taken out of the gouty ulcers on the 
 small joints nearest the nails. Salt is purely an anti- 
 septic. It evidently, like other minerals, cannot be 
 built into the body tissues. The sodium of the bones 
 like the calcium and other mineral elements must be 
 drawn from organized vegetable structures. Taken 
 in large quantities salt becomes an irritant. In normal 
 solution it must be considered as a germicide, and used 
 in very moderate quantities it acts as an antiseptic 
 in the human system and "aids in the production of 
 hydrochloric acid in the stomach." So says Dr. Emery 
 in "Life and Health." 
 
 Tea Drinking. 
 
 The maimer in which the Chinese and Japanese 
 drink tea. furnishes no manner of excuse whatever 
 for the way it is used in civilized lands. From the 
 personal testimimy of man}' who have been in tliose 
 countries for years, not more than one-fifth the amount 
 of tea ])er capita, is used there that is consumed in 
 h^ngland and America. History does not reveal the 
 time wluMi these nations did not sterilize (boil) all 
 their drinking water, and all they use tea for, gen- 
 erally, is to gi\e tlie water the slightest flavor. Their 
 tea has 1)ut the palest straw color, so they do not .get 
 the drug effect that we are ac(|uainted with. These 
 facts remove the oriental argument in la\or of tea 
 drinking that has been used in America and iCngland. 
 
292 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Hot Water Drinking. 
 
 You may not be able to wash away the bad habits 
 of living", but you may wash away many of the severe 
 aches and pains by a free internal use of hot water on 
 rising and retiring and when in pain. It is better, 
 more thorough and almost as quick as sedative drugs ; 
 sometimes much quicker and always safer. 
 
 Flavoring the Water. 
 
 The stomach will often take care of much more 
 fluid if it is flavored with lemon or orange or other 
 fruit juices or some aromatic herb which appeals to 
 , the taste. Water charged with carbonic acid gas is 
 on this account often very useful. The question of 
 taste has something to do with the absorption of 
 water as well as the digestion of food. 
 
 Hard Water. 
 
 Water which contains enough mineral matter so 
 that soap will form "curds" in it, is commonly called 
 "hard water." The most common mineral element 
 found in hard water is carbonate of lime. Water is 
 composed of hydrogen and oxygen. The human body 
 is about four-fifths water. As in the air, the oxygen 
 combines with the blood in the lungs and helps to pre- 
 pare it to fully nourish the body, so the same element 
 in the water is the oxidizer and dissolver of the min- 
 eral elements, the salts, in the food which are used 
 in sustaining the bones, teeth, nails and hair. .\ow 
 if the oxygen has exhausted its resolvent properties 
 on mineral elements in the soil before it is taken into 
 the bod}^ how can the work of preparing these food 
 elements l)e properl)- carried on? All the digestive 
 
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 tluids" hiwc. to l)e prepared from tlie water. It is said 
 l>y some that the saliva flows more freely when one 
 drinks "hard" water. No wonder. The sailva is a 
 slijj^htly alkaline fluid. It certainly will require more 
 of it to "break" the lime in the hard water and thus 
 get rid of this unusable material. It remains yet to be 
 demonstrated that the body can take up and assimi- 
 late as building material, any mineral elements before 
 they have been transformed into vegetable cell struc- 
 ture. Until this is proven assertions about the value 
 of minerals in water, except as antiseptics, are vain. 
 
 Several very distressing and destructive diseases 
 are due directly to the use of hard water. One of them 
 is stone in the bladder, commonly called gravel; an- 
 other is renal calculus, stone in the kidney. Both these 
 diseases arc unknmvu among those who have always 
 lived in soft water countries. Another trouble which 
 forms the commencement for apoplexy, hardening or 
 the arteries and veins, called arterio sclerosis, is almost 
 unknown in strictly soft water districts. The writer 
 has been conversant with a section of Oswego County, 
 New York State, where this fact has been abundantly 
 demonstrated. l->iug adjacent to one another are 
 some five or six townships all but one of which have 
 nothing but soft water, both in wells and springs. 
 The other township lies lower, in the limestone belt, 
 and has nothing but hard water. 
 
 For the last fifty years there have been but ver\- 
 few cases of apoplexy in the soft water district aid 
 these happened to men addicted to strong drink, it 
 who had moved in from some hard water section. 
 While in the hard water township there have been 
 scons of such cases among various classes of |)i'ople. 
 
294 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Sonic minerals in water, say a little salt or sulphur 
 may. and do act as antiseptics in the body. So whether 
 these can be assimilated or not makes no difiference 
 as long' as the}' can do no harm in small quantities, 
 and ])Ositively do inhibit germ growths. 
 
 Substitutes for Coffee and Tea. 
 
 Thoroughly brown, wheat, rye, barley, corn or rice. 
 Use this instead of the commercial article, boiling it 
 a little more. All the food cofifees and package sub- 
 stitutes are mostly made of wheat bran and molasses, 
 rve and barley. Alv mother, and scores of other good 
 housewives, made them while Kellogg, the Caramel 
 Cereal promoter, was still a boy and a long time be- 
 fore Post began to get rich with Postum Cereal. Com- 
 pare the cost. Try ])ure water for awhile. 
 
 The Buttermilk Fad. 
 
 I'uttermilk, or common sour milk contains certain 
 acid producing germs that are capable of destroying 
 nearly all the disease producing germs commonly 
 Ifumd in the intestinal tract. ^^\> do not feel clear 
 yet to sa} that the}- will destroy germs of tuberculosis, 
 wliich iniglit be ftnuul in the same milk. Just now, 
 this kind of milk is being prescribed as almost a cure 
 lor eyerything. Some expensiye ferments under new, 
 mysterious, it not eui)honious names, are being recom- 
 mended and sold. They are said to produce just the 
 right kind of acid conditions in the milk. W^e cannot 
 see why lactic acid from Bulgaria, or with a Bulgarian 
 name, should be in any way superior to that produced 
 !)}• good American milk. 
 
 It is safe to say that pnre clean buttermilk, or sour 
 
POINTERS 295 
 
 milk, made from sterilized milk, jnst as it naturally 
 develops, is every way as good as any that can be 
 produced by any artificial process. 
 
 Expensive luxuries sometimes ease the mind with- 
 out, in any way. ministering any more comfort to the 
 body than common things. 
 
 Little Things. 
 
 Even so small a matter as the leaxing out of tea 
 or cofTee. or simplifying the diet to two or three arti- 
 cles at a meal, or breathing a full supply of pure air 
 for a few minutes night and morning, or taking a cool 
 sponge bath c^r a dry hand rul) every morning, or 
 even drinking a single glass of water extra, night and 
 morning; an}' one of these or some other little things 
 make all the difference sometimes between health and 
 sickness. When will mankind learn that the little 
 things of life are the great things? 
 
 "According to My Experience. " 
 
 Experience counts for but a lillle as a guide for 
 others, unless that experience has been moulded by 
 reason and judgmenl instead of impulse, l^he shij) 
 captain trying to sail his vessel by impulsive experi- 
 ence, would sail with the winds and tides and wMild 
 probably go on the rocks at last. So experience guided 
 by old appetites and iiupulses is more than likely to 
 be misleading. I'.ut experience, which has got its 
 Compass set, and is sailing toward port will i)rovc 
 of some value dav by day- But our experience in 
 eating cannot absolutely govern others. .Among so 
 many diseased perverted stomachs: what is food for 
 one may possibl\- ])r<i\e to be poison to another betore 
 
296 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 digestion is over. Some cannot eat fruit of any kind. 
 This has gone on until the entire habit of the body 
 has been changed. Habits have led in different direc- 
 tions; in all ways but the right one with few excep- 
 tions, so no one can be a safe criterion for all others. 
 The thing to be done is to master the principles and 
 shape our habits after them ; then our experience will 
 have some value. 
 
 Uric Acid and Fruits. 
 
 We find a sentiment quite prevalent that there is 
 danger of uric acid injury from eating fruits like 
 tomatoes and strawberries. Now we want to say 
 emphatically, that there is no more relationship be- 
 tween fruit acids and uric acid than there is between 
 buttermilk acids and carbolic acid. Uric acid is found 
 to exist freely in flesh, and is developed in the diges- 
 tion of such foods as peas and beans, to a moderate 
 extent. Some other highly nitrogenous foods also 
 yield a small amount. But there is none in fruit. 
 While some people cannot eat fruit because of some 
 peculiar conditions in the stomach, others may eat 
 fniit with meats and hinder the digestion of the meats, 
 and thus interfere with the entire digestive process, 
 and prevent the disposal of the uric acid, and thereby 
 induce a "slight attack of neuralgia or rheumatism ; 
 but the fruit is not to blame. It is the meat or the 
 mixture that is to be avoided. 
 
 Assurance. 
 
 When a case needs assurance, and there are very 
 few that do not, there is nothing on earth will take 
 the place of it. The doctor and nurse may look wise 
 
POINTERS 297 
 
 and give medicine, or massage, or electricity, Init 
 all will be vain unless the confidence and hope is 
 restored. A little positive assurance is worth more 
 in many cases than all the other remedies ever used. 
 A physician is justified sometimes in giving full as- 
 surance, even when he sees T)Ut little hope for his 
 patient ; for sometimes the only thing that will save 
 the patient after all the other remedies have been used 
 is a calm frame of mind, and this comes only through 
 full assurance of belief in something. 
 
 't>' 
 
 Nature's Calls. 
 
 Never for one niomcnt refuse to listen to nature's 
 calls. Failure to heed this counsel has been the be- 
 ginning of the ways of death to many. Have an ap- 
 pointment and keep it. 
 
 The Depurating System. 
 
 The purifying apparatus will do its full share of 
 work without the lash of stimulation, if no more of the 
 right kind of fluid is put into the body than it requires 
 and the diaphragm is kept wiirking. 
 
 Exercise. 
 
 In almost every diseased condition of the body, 
 except fevers and blood poisoning, the circulation 
 should be stirred into activity, either locally or gen- 
 erally by voluntary exercise, or massage, or by alter- 
 nate heat and cold or electricity. In some cases the 
 body may rc(|uire rest while the part in trouble will 
 need stirring up. 
 
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298 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Precautions for the Night. 
 
 First of all be sure to have good close screens for 
 all the doors and windows. On retiring in warm 
 weather see that there is a good free full circulation 
 of air all through the sleeping apartments and the 
 house generally. This cools the house down so that 
 it can be comparatively closed up against the heat 
 of the coming day. But do not have your beds stand- 
 ing in a current or draft of air. It is liable to subject 
 you to enough exposure to produce colds or coughs. 
 When one who is weary becomes partially exposed 
 to a cooler current of air than is comfortable it ex- 
 hausts vitality unnecessarily. When the cooler sea- 
 son advances you should still make sure of free xgw- 
 tilation, but be sure to keep out of the drafts. 
 
 For those who are apt to sleep with their arms out 
 from under the covers, it Avill be wise to have a good 
 thick sleeved garment for the arms and top of the 
 shoulders. For most seasons the night-robe should 
 be of double thickness over the parts of the shoulders 
 most liable to exposure. These cautions, if obser\-ed, 
 may help to save 3'OU from continuous attacks of 
 catarrh or from an attack of influenza or pneumonia. 
 Pure air you must have or suffer serious loss, but it 
 is not necessary to expose the surface of any portion 
 of the body for the sake of securing the air supply. 
 
 The harm is not so much in the drafts of air as in 
 the exposure of some imaccustomed parts to the extra 
 coolness of the latter part of the night when the 
 body is busiest at its work of general repair, "^""ou 
 can sleep out of doors if the surface of the body and 
 extremities are well protected and be the better for 
 it. The point is to keep an even distribution of the 
 
POINTERS 299 
 
 circulation to every part of the body and at the same 
 time secure a full unlimited supply of pure air for 
 the use of the lungs while the great recuperative and" 
 rebuilding processes are going on. Don't be so afraid 
 of drafts that you will shut out the "awful night air," 
 hut he stirred up to evenly protect the body in all its 
 parts (luring its most defenseless hours. 
 
 All this bugaboo about night air is an old chronic 
 whim that ought to be dismissed by all thoughtfu) 
 people. Follow the suggestion given here and "night 
 air" will be a blessing to you. 
 
 'I'he mouth must be kept closed if necessary by a 
 chin cap, to prevent snoring. This will be less neces- 
 sary if no supper is taken or at least oidy a very light 
 meal of sinrple food indulged at night. If you load 
 up the body at night with a full meal, you may clog 
 the system with sufficient waste to give you a \-ery 
 had cold before morning, especially if you shouht 
 be subjected to some degree of exposure. 
 
 Breathing as a Stimulus to Digestion. 
 
 X most important anatomical fact helps us to un- 
 derstand the effect oi dia])hragm gymnastics on the 
 action of the stomach. A single bundle of- nerve fibers, 
 the Pneumogastric, controls both the lungs and 
 stomach. .\ow. whenever the brain centers are stimu; 
 lated or energized by proi)er breathing exercise, it is 
 easy to understand how that portion of the nerve 
 which controls the stomach is also energized. There 
 is a similar relationship between the action of con- 
 \ergence and accommodation in the eyes. The same 
 nerve, called the third nerve, shapes the lens of the 
 eve for close work and also draws the eves toirether so 
 
800 EiSSENTIAtvS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 that both may be focused on any near object, so that 
 when focusing power is interfered with, convergence 
 is disturbed. 
 
 ' It is a most wonderful fact to the writer that the 
 fiinction of breathing should be thus related to the 
 iVork of digestion. It suggests to him that more at- 
 tention should now be given to the use of the breath- 
 ing muscles. We have had years of talk about eating 
 but it remains a fact that good food will not digest 
 well without the stimulus of natural breathing; while 
 poor foods, hard of digestion, may be disposed of 
 without immediately seriously consequences if proper 
 attention is paid to the breathing. Witness how the 
 Wood-chopper or coal heaver can digest broadside 
 ^ork. He tugs and toils and breathes and sweats, and 
 many times suffers no marked inconvenience from his 
 (ood. But this is no argument in favor of pork or 
 other bad foods ; it only shows the importance of 
 breathing and other exercises which stimulate diges- 
 tion. 
 
 The writer presents the foregoing suggestions con- 
 cerning the Pneumogastric nerve not as a proven fact 
 biit as a hypothesis of his own, holding no one re- 
 sponsible for it. Some scientist will yet demonstrate 
 !its truth or falsity. It certainly can do no harm. 
 Breathing does stimulate digestion. ^Vhether by ner- 
 vous or mechanical stimulus, or both, it does not so 
 much matter. 
 
 Exhalation Tube. 
 
 One may be improvised by using a piece of clay 
 pipe stem or any very small tube, or you can pur- 
 chase one for twenty-five cents. Take a full breath 
 
POINTERS 301 
 
 and blow out through it tirnily and steadily until that 
 breath is exhausted. Repeat several times in a fevu 
 minutes. This is a splendid exercise to strengthen thie 
 muscles of the breathing organs. Reverse the process 
 drawing in the breath quite vigorously through the 
 tube. To develop the vocal cords, take a full breath, 
 then take some musical tone and spend the breath on. 
 this musical tone, holding the tone as long and steadily, 
 as possible. This will smooth up the vocal cords giv-t 
 ing them strength and vigor. This is indispensible 
 in voice culture. ' \ 
 
 Don't Try to be a Hero. 
 
 There is no virtue in trying to make a hero or 
 heroine of yourself by taking your cool baths in a. 
 cold room. The cool bath is all right if the room 
 is warm and the bath not too cold or long continued., 
 
 Don't Soak too Much. 
 
 Learn to do things right and get the benefit. One 
 or two good full baths per week beside the morning" 
 sponge or the dry rub are enough for health. If your 
 patient is feeble don't think that he must have heavy 
 treatment or even full treatments daily. All thorough 
 treatments use up some vitality. Use gentle measures 
 and give Nature a chance. Rest, gentle breathing ex- 
 ercises, and care about food and water are always' 
 in order. Beyond these efforts be careful i>\ fecblei 
 patients. Dun't gi\e them too much. 
 
 Changing from a Cold to a Hot Atmosphere. 
 
 Oon't come \ ery suddenly from a very low leiuper-' 
 ature. say below zero into a heated rt)oni. You ard 
 
302 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 just as liable to take cold as you would be if you re- 
 versed the process. The sudden influx of hot air into 
 the lungs, may be so debilitating and weakening to the 
 mucous membranes of the lungs and throat, as to pro- 
 duce a severe congestion. Step from the cold into a 
 more moderate room and stay a short time before 
 entering the hot room. It is unsafe to keep the tem- 
 perature of living rooms above 70. If the feet are 
 kept warm a lower temperature will be pleasan»^er. 
 
 Protection When Reclining. 
 
 When you lie down whether to rest for a brief time 
 or to take a midday nap always cover up with at least 
 a light blanket, not enough, however, in warm weather, 
 to produce perspiration. This precaution becomes nec- 
 essary because the heart beat is lessened about eight 
 to twelve beats per minute, when we assume a hor- 
 izontal position, and there is a corresponding lessen- 
 ing of heat production. So the protection suggested 
 prevents one taking cold. 
 
 Exposure When Weary. 
 
 The man who comes in from a day of severe ex- 
 ercise and, after the evening meal, leans back in his 
 chair against the side of the room that is exposed to 
 the cold weather, with nothing over his shoulders 
 but the damp shirt he has worn through the day will 
 stand all the chances of a very severe cold in the lungs 
 or bronchi. Always put a heavy coat on in the cold 
 e\enings, especially after a wearing day's work. Bet- 
 ter repeat the always for all people at all seasons, and 
 don't lean back against a cold outside wall or sit un- 
 
POINTERS 303 
 
 der even a closed window. There is no demand for 
 such exposure and no good excuse for it. 
 
 Snuffling Cats or Dogs. 
 
 Keep snuffling- cats and dogs out of the house and 
 away from the family. This will save the household 
 from serious attacks of throat and nasal troubles. No 
 mistake about this. 
 
 Little and Often. 
 
 This is the law of exercise for the weak. 
 
 Here is an Old One. 
 
 How to keep from being thirsty. "Always drink just 
 before you are dry." 
 
 How to Stop a Hacking Cougfi. 
 
 A hacking cough that makes life miserable may be 
 greatly relieved for the night by the heating compress 
 about the throat, by sipping a cup of very hot drink, 
 or by using an inhalation made of equal parts of 
 menthol crystals and camphor gum and half as much 
 eucalyptus oil. Wet a small piece of thin cotton with 
 ten or fifteen drops of this fluid. Place this to your 
 nose with a light handkerchief thrown over your face 
 and head. Your cough will cease and you will go to 
 sleep before you know it and have a good night's rest. 
 To make absolutely certain, try all three remedies. 
 '['liis iiilialation may be used in any inhaler. ' 
 
 Oil Rubs. 
 
 For the thin bloodless person whose liver antl in- 
 testines are slow and whose feet and hands are cold 
 
304 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 in damp chilly weather, ai oil mib every morning" will 
 prove a great blessing. Such people should not think 
 that they can soak health into themselves by a course 
 of baths. A good bath once or twice a week will 
 be all that is necessary for such, while the stout 
 plethoric one will find it to his advantage to take 
 all the baths he has time for. 
 
 Sense of Weight at the Stomach. 
 
 If you waken with a sense as of a "stone" or a 
 "chunk" at the pit of the stomach, just work it off b>' 
 practicing diaphragm gymnastics for five or ten min- 
 utes. Then study to prevent the condition returning". 
 Quite likely it was a big late composite supper that 
 caused it. Perhaps you were tired out when you ate 
 your evening meal. It may be the free use. of meats, 
 especially pork. The solar plexus tliat has charge 
 of the digestive organs is tired, dive it a rest. 
 
 Soap. 
 
 That soap is best and safest which can be used 
 the longest time continuously without damage. No 
 first class laundr}^ soap will damage the skin. Wit- 
 ness how long the washer-woman keeps her hands in 
 the suds. The manufacturers study diligently topro- 
 duce a soap that will not injure the skin. W hen a soap 
 does damage to the hands, the people reject it at once. 
 Most toilet soaps, tho highly scented and highly priced, 
 are not as good for toilet use as the old standard rosin 
 washing soaps. In them we have an unfailing" germi- 
 cide. r>ut there are good toilet soaps. 
 
POINTERS 305 
 
 Examination for Glasses. 
 
 Are you a nervous, thin bloodless person? Do your 
 eyes trouble you? Are you going to the optometrist 
 or oculist to get your eyes tested for glasses? Just 
 drink all the water you can for a day or two in ad- 
 vance. Your blood will flow better, your nerves will 
 be steadier, you will have less spasm in the eye, and 
 you will get a much better fit. 
 
 How to Blow the Nose. 
 
 Teach the children to clear the nose of phlegm by 
 covering only one nostril at a time. This will very 
 much lessen the chance of forcing catarrhal matter 
 back through the eustachian ttibes into the middle ear, 
 which is. very likely to happen if both nostrils are 
 held in the effort to increase the expulsive power. 
 
 How to Empty the Cavity of the Middle Ear. 
 
 This is a very simple procedure but not so easy as 
 forcing air into them. Most any one can make the 
 ears "crack" by holding the nostrils and making a 
 strong expulsive effort. Btit it is a very bad practice. 
 Now to learn how to clear the ears and tubes perform 
 the act of swallowing slowly a few times, taking care 
 to notice that in the act the throat first shuts up close, 
 and then as the act ends it drops down to place. Now 
 you arc ready, swallow and when the throat is shut 
 up seize the nose, holding both nostrils tightly and 
 keeping the mouth closed, endeavor to let the throat 
 drop again into position, that is to finish the act of 
 swallowing. This has a tendency to produce a vacuum 
 in the throat, and it ])ulls hard on the tubes going into 
 the middle ear. This draws out the phlegm and 
 
306 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 catarrhal matter, and will help to prevent catarrhal 
 deafness. This is a new procedure and worthy of in- 
 vestigation. Use it carefully. Better far, than trying 
 to stretch the tubes, by forcing air back into them 
 and with it more or less catarrhal matter, after the 
 old method with a Politzer bag. The writer discovered 
 this procedure in 1897. 
 
 How to Be Fat. 
 
 Learn to live the best you can. Put your mind on 
 the business of improvement, not on worrying because 
 you are scrawny. Breathe wisely and well ; then you 
 can eat and digest very much more. (Study "Use of 
 Air or Breathing as a Remedy.) Work moderately 
 and never cross a bridge until you come to it. Starches, 
 cream and vegetable oils make fat. Drink half a glass 
 of water every half hour except for two hours during 
 and after meals. This will help to plump the body 
 out. Don't pay out money for special foods ; they are 
 generally worth more to the one who sells them than 
 they will be to you. It is not what you eat, but what 
 you digest that makes you fat and strong; so breathe 
 and work your diaphragm and be happy whether lean 
 or fat. 
 
 How to Be Lean. 
 
 Eat only a small amount of fat-making foods, and 
 be severely abstemious generally. Chew long and well, 
 before you swallow. Try the grape cure. It may be 
 modified to a diet chiefly composed of fruits and green 
 stufif. Work as hard as you can endure. Let alone all 
 drugs for fat reducing and don't waste money on spe- 
 cial foods. Better be well and fat than lean and sick. 
 
POINTERS 307 
 
 Keep busy. Hard work, wheat bran and lemonade and 
 heavy sweating are worth more than all the anti-fat 
 ever produced. If you are not sick let well enough 
 alone and be happy. Perhaps you were born to be 
 stout anyway. Then what is the use of feeling bad 
 about it. Study exercises under "Prolapse ' of the 
 Stomach." 
 
 Physical Training. 
 
 Begin with the breathing exercises, and first develop 
 the producing power of the laboratory in lungs, 
 stomach, bowels and liver. It takes blood to build 
 muscle, bone and brain and nerve. Blood is made in 
 the laboratory. No use to put yourself into agony 
 trying to develop shoulder, arm and leg muscles until 
 you have used the diaphragm gymnastics and got the 
 laboratory in order. This is the point of failure in 
 most of the physical training schools. No use trying 
 to direct the vital forces in the blood to any part of 
 the body, until you have ]:»egun to develop those forces. 
 
 The chest, waist line and abdomen must receive 
 especial attention. This is where the vital organs 
 are located. Here is where you live. If you are 
 strong here you w ill be strong, generally. When you 
 have developed strength in lungs, stomach, liver and 
 spleen, then you can begin to give special exercise to 
 any other part that may be lacking and thus draw 
 the new fresh supply of building material to those 
 parts and secure their development. 
 
 The young man who goes to the gynuiasium, puts 
 on the athletic garb and girts his waist-line with a 
 belt, will have a long, slow time developing his body. 
 The belt may. for just a brief time, give a sense of 
 
308 ESSENTIALvS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 strength throuL;li bracinii;- the waist line nuiscles, l)Ut 
 if worn continually it will hinder the proper working 
 of the vital organs, and prevent the preparation of 
 the proper amount of nutrition, and so his gymnasium 
 course may prove of only little, if any, read advantage. 
 The foregoing advice will make physical training a big 
 success where it has hitherto accomplished 1)ut little. 
 
 Relaxation. 
 
 When you lie down to rest or sleep or when you 
 sit down, learn to relax. Let the muscles become 
 limp. Don't hold any of your muscles on a tension. 
 Watch yourself if you are in a habit of lying awake 
 nights and see if you do not find yourself actually 
 holding your head up from the pillow, so that you do 
 not let your head rest down quiet and easy, with the 
 nock muscles all limp. Study to "let go" with the 
 mind as well as the muscles. A good way to get 
 relaxed when lying down is to hold the arm and 
 liand up straight and then let the fingers drop over, 
 then the wrist, next the elbow and last let the whole 
 arm fall over limp. Repeat many times. Relaxation 
 prepares the way for sleep and full physical rest. 
 
 Superstition. 
 
 It is profoundly astonishing what credulity mani- 
 fests itself in sutTering humanity. If some traveling 
 quack, a stranger to the country, or some well lo- 
 cated medical man recommends a nauseous decoction 
 that has been disguised with whiskey and aromatics ; 
 or some sugar-chocolate covered pellet, for the cure 
 of a malady, how eagerly the afflicted one will seize 
 and swalliiw the lauded potion or pellet, without hav- 
 
POINTERS 309 
 
 ins^ the least idea of what it contains. So credulous 
 are most of them that they just trust all to the 
 promise of cure because there still clings to humanity 
 the impression that medicines cure. It is all a great 
 big confidence game invented for the chief purpose 
 of relieving the poor sufferer's purse. 
 
 If some natural reasonable process of cure is out- 
 lined to the average man he will discredit it faster than 
 you can tell him. Faith takes hold of reasonable evi- 
 dence. 
 
 Superstition and credulity just swallow whatever 
 seems wonderful or marvelous or mystical and keep 
 right on doing it after a thousand disappointments. 
 
 People afflicted with rheumatism will change doc- 
 tors and medicines a dozen times before they will 
 trust nature across the road. And the doctor will 
 change medicines until he is baffled over and over 
 again before he learns to come back and build on the 
 bedrock of hygiene. 
 
 In spite of superstitious notions about wonderful 
 medical discoveries and in spite of the fact that man}' 
 cures brought about by nature are credited to medi- 
 cine, the patient sometimes having survived in spite 
 of the drugs, it is nevertheless true that most sick 
 people would rally and fully recover much quicker if 
 left entirely to the use of hygienic agencies in the 
 hands of some good old common sense mother. 
 
 Health Catching. 
 
 Disease becomes contagious through violations of 
 natural law : health may become catching through 
 obedience. 
 
310 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Waist Reform. 
 
 O, woman, don't waste your energies worrying over 
 your poor health. Just reform your waist line by 
 dispensing with bands and beginning to hang all gar- 
 ments from the shoulders. Let the bands out an 
 inch or two at a time, once a month. You will be 
 surprised at the rapidity with which your body will 
 fill them. Instead of the corset wear an abdominal 
 supporter, and take the exercises suggested for Fro- 
 lapse of the Stomach. In six months or less you 
 will have sufficient room for laboratory work, and a 
 feeling of power will have taken possession of you 
 to which you have been a stranger. The waist line 
 is the point of greatest waste to the civilized corset 
 wearers. At least three-fourths of the doctors will 
 be deprived of business when women grow up natural 
 from childhood. O, if the best women of the w^orld 
 could l)ut l)e free from this worse than Chinese thral- 
 dom, what a power for good would develop in Chris- 
 tian homes, and it would be a power that would move 
 heaven as well as earth. 
 
 Self Denial. 
 
 The great Master teacher said, "if any man will 
 l)e my disciple, let him deny himself daily, and take 
 u]) his cross and follow me." Self denial, in part, has 
 to do with matters of appetite and hence directly with 
 the question of health. So the Master makes caring 
 for one's health through appetite a part of the test of 
 discipleship. Self denial is also a mental and moral 
 discipline which helps to prepare a character fit for an 
 eternal kingdom. So }()U see it has both to do with 
 hygiene and Christianitv. Self indulgence has ihe ease 
 
POINTERS 311 
 
 and satisfaction first, and the pain afterwards. Self 
 denial endures the stress of mind at first and has the 
 pleasure afterward. Indulgence eventually ends in 
 sorrow; denial always in satisfaction. This keeps the 
 man in control and makes life a joy. "Nothing great 
 or good was ever accomplished in this world without 
 the exercise of resolute self denial." It is the response 
 of the will and judgment to the call of conscience. It 
 bars the way against every evil. 
 
 In it is length of days and strength of life and pur- 
 pose. It walks in the pathway of Wisdom. It fur- 
 nishes the discipline which has built the character 
 of every truly great man that ever lived. If the les- 
 sons are taught to, and practiced in childhood the way 
 of life becomes easy. It costs no more to go the 
 right way than to go the other way. The satisfaction 
 and pleasure once fully enjoyed makes the right at- 
 tractive and if followed for awhile it becomes prefer- 
 able. The foundations of fortitude, courage, calmness, 
 patience and self control for life are laid in the lessons 
 lit self denial taught to the little ones by faithful and 
 true parents. 
 
 In its practical workings, by learning to like pure 
 soft water or distilled water instead of using hard 
 water and drinking tea and cofifee, one may save 
 themselves from }-ears of suffering and premature 
 death. Never mind if the soft water docs taste "Hat" 
 to a badly educated palate, it will taste all right when 
 the appetite is subdued. .And there is the change t)f 
 appetite necessary in learning to like plain natural 
 foods instead of many of the unwholesome highly 
 seasoned viands to which we may have been accus- 
 tomed. A life of untold physical agony and remorse 
 
M2 lOSSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 may be prevented by denying the unlawful t;ratifica- 
 tion of sexual desire. The command "Thou shalt not 
 steal" requires self denial and the Sabbath command 
 too, and so of all. So denial means obedience to both 
 natural and moral law. 
 
 Self denial is not penance. It prohibits only the 
 use of those things which in themselves are either 
 harmful or unnecessary. He who practices it gets 
 more than full compensation for any self crucifixion 
 which may have been inflicted, in the joy and rest 
 which comes as the harvest of his right doing. The 
 way of self discipline brings to a man all the good 
 thai this life can have in store for him. It pays the 
 largest percentage of any investment man can make, 
 and the investor, if true to the end, will find his capital 
 again, infinitely multiplied in the life to come. 
 
 It is astonishing what military discipline will do. 
 ?\k'n can give themselves up to obeying the com- 
 mands of a superior in ofifice till they will throw them- 
 selves upon fixed bayonets or into the mouth of the 
 cannon. If the same efforts were put forth by fathers 
 and mothers and Christian teachers and the teachers 
 in our secular schools to develop this virtue, most of 
 the sickness and sin would cease from society. There 
 would be very little use for lawyers or courts of 
 justice. The jails would be empty. No prohibitory 
 laws and few others would be needed to restrain man- 
 kind. They would be useful only as standards of 
 morality. 
 
 If self were angelic there would be no need of de- 
 nial but self is always selfish and like every perverted 
 thing in nature needs pruning and trimming and train- 
 ing and cultivating. There is too much of the culti- 
 
POINTERS 313 
 
 vating without the pruuiiii;. Your Ijcst fruit-tree needs 
 pruning-, and your best domestic animal needs curb- 
 ing, and restraining, to keep the wild selfish nature 
 from asserting itself. You see in your best friends 
 things whicli need correcting, in motive as well as in 
 outward conduct. You see places where a little in- 
 ward training would make them more lovely, more 
 noble, and better companions and members of society. 
 It is best that we turn our e3^es within and begin the 
 work which no other can do for us and if we are still 
 children, not kick and grumble because a wise cautious 
 parent places on us restraints that cut across our sel- 
 fish desires. Self denial is the noblest kind of dis- 
 cipline. 
 
 Teachers and all workers for the good of liunianitv 
 can immortalize their names by helping to build up 
 this safeguard of society. 
 
 Change of Tune. 
 
 For nearly fifty years the writer has been listening 
 to those who considered themselves health teachers. 
 He has probably heard a thousand health talks in this 
 time. Perhaps not <|uite so many. He feels safe in 
 trusting his memory to say that all but twenty-five 
 or thirt>' of these talks were on the subject of diet. 
 He has ne\er heard a word said about the Law of 
 Rest. Scarcely anything about water-drinking and 
 only very little on the subjects of breathing, clothing 
 and exercise. He has sometimes been reminded of 
 a hand organ that had got out of order and kept play- 
 ing the same tune right over and over. He thinks 
 now it is about time to regulate the stops and put the 
 organ in full rc])air so as to get all the tunes possible 
 
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314 ESSENTIAIvS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 out of it. There is something to talk about beside 
 the Law of Eating. We hope the reader will appre- 
 ciate the emphasis we have placed on the Law of 
 Breathing, and the Law of Rest, as well as the Law 
 .of Comfort in the use of sunlight and protection front 
 the elements. 
 
 Do not overlook the Law of Water-drinking. MucW 
 more can be accomplished in the use of these things 
 than has yet been done. 
 
 Do not overlook the value of breathing as a cure 
 for dyspepsia and slow digestion. If you are a« 
 invalid and have been leaning on some one or some- 
 thing outside yourself for cure, just get your personal 
 spunk up and make up your mind for yourself to live 
 A listless spiritless frame of mind is sure to result from 
 a lack of water drinking and breathing. Stir up your 
 breathing muscles, pull out a new stop and change 
 the tune, see if 3^ou cannot get a few new strains of 
 music out of the old organ. It is about time that peo- 
 ple learned that beside Creative power there is no 
 curative power outside the living body. These bodies 
 can with a very little artificial help be made to ap- 
 propriate the Seven Essentials and bring in new life 
 and activity. If the body is dull and listless, physic- 
 ally, a little passive exercise — massage, or osteopathy, 
 or Swedish manual movements, or mechanical vibra- 
 tion, or electricity — may be a great help, in connection 
 with efYorts at breathing and water-drinking. There is 
 many an invalid that will flourish and get fully well 
 when they get the mind fully made up to live. Some 
 of them will need help to make up their minds. This 
 is where a good courageous and hopeful physicia« 
 and nurse and cheerful family friends will be of great 
 
POINTERS 315 
 
 value. The distracted cheerless mind must ha\ e con- 
 fidence, trust, and peace restored so that the whole 
 life energy will not be spent in fostering adverse 
 mental conditions like worry, fear and anxiety. The 
 real Christian hope is a precious boon to these cases. 
 Confidence in the loving tender Heavenly Father may 
 be transferred from the heart and soul of the faithful 
 Christian physician or nurse, to the heart of the de- 
 sponding sick one and the discordant notes of doubt 
 and darkness, despair and remorse may be silenced, 
 and the melody of hope and joy and love be made 
 to respond to the loving kindness of our God, without 
 whose notice not a sparrow falls to the ground. There 
 are songs of joy and gladness in this old organ, — the 
 human body, — and when we get the subject of Hygiene 
 tuned right in connection with this body its delicate 
 chords will once more vibrate in partial if not full 
 accord with the laws of the Creator in Xaturc. 
 
 Responsibility. 
 
 .^omeonc will be held accountable for the ruin 
 wrought by the corset. Our Christian women feel so 
 sorry for the ])Oor benighted Chinese ladies who pinch 
 and deform their feet, and they send missionaries at 
 great expense to save these poor creatures from their 
 wrong ways, while they themselves stand as much 
 in need of being saved from their ungodly physical 
 habits as do the Chinese. There is one very consoling 
 thought, however, they nearly all see the error of their 
 way after they have lost their health and been ipiar- 
 tered and cored on some operating talile. Then the\' 
 are truly penitent. This is very encouraging. I'.ut 
 >cmebodv will have an account to settle f^ir the ruined 
 
316 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 lives that mic^ht liavc l)ccn saved by trampling- pride 
 under foot. 
 
 Sterilizing Milk and Cream and Water. 
 
 This is done by slowly l^ringini; it to the boiling" 
 point and letting it remain two or three minutes; or 
 pasteurize it by keeping it just about 160 to 180 F. 
 for half an hour. In general terms it is sufficient to 
 say bring" it nearly to the boiling" point and keej) it 
 there for twentv or thirt\- minutes. The long heating: 
 at lower temperature does not change the flavor of 
 the milk as much as boiling". Treat all well water, and 
 river water, l)y boiling before drinking. Raw milk 
 is a source of tuberculosis infection, and typhoid fever 
 is usually caused by g"ern"is in the water or the milk. 
 Sterilize the milk when first drawn, and the cream and 
 1)utter will be all right. 
 
 Sterilizing Strawberries, Etc. 
 
 Strawberries, lettuce, celery and other green salad 
 materials, are liable to be thoroughly infected by 
 germs of bacillus coli from the barnyard fertilizer used 
 as well as other ground germs. After thorough wash- 
 ing, let thein stand for twenty n"iinutes in a solution 
 of soda and water, one teaspoonful to a pint; then 
 rinse thoroughl}^ in clean water. The writer has seen 
 cases where strawd^erries made the i)erson sick every 
 time, .\fler beginning to treat them as here suggested, 
 all tr(nd)le ceased. Tartaric Acid soluli(M"i of the same 
 strength i> also hig"hl_\" recommended. 
 
 How to Sweeten a Cistern. 
 
 ']~akc off the cover and set a ])ump in which reaches 
 nearl}" to the bottom. Xow [)ump, letting the water 
 
POINTERS 317 
 
 lall back into the cistern lor one or two honrs or lons^cr 
 accordino^ to the amount of water. Yon will he snr- 
 prised how working the air hack into the water in this 
 manner will sweeten np the whole volnme. In the 
 absence of a pnmi) dip with bucket at the end of a 
 pole or rope and pour it hack in. At least once a 
 year, when the cistern is low, draw it all out and use 
 plenty of a solution of chlorate of lime washing" the 
 sides aufl bottcmi thorouqhh-. and drv with a piece of 
 heav}' cotton goods. 
 
 Soft Drinks. 
 
 The soda fountain drinks lor the young people, may 
 be comi^letely dispensed with by learning to put up 
 fruit juices as one puts u]) I'ruit. (Orangeade, lemonade 
 and all kinds of berry juices, especially raspberry, and 
 grape juice cooled in the refrigerator or well are very 
 refreshing. 
 
 Some of the soda fountain drinks are utterly unfit 
 for the human stomach. Read the goxernment re- 
 ports on Coco Cola and a long list of its class. 
 
 Apple cider made pure by paring the apples and thus 
 getting rid of the germs of fermentation has been 
 kept ten weeks, in an open pitcher on the pantr}' shelf 
 from October to Christmas with nothing but a naj)kin 
 laid loosely over the top. w ithout perceptible fermenta- 
 tion. .Sound api)le juice will keep as well as sound ap- 
 ])lcs. Heat and seal this like fruit in glass jars and 
 you have something fine. 
 
 Insect Bites. 
 
 Moscpiitoes convev the poison which causes malarial, 
 yellow, and i)io])al)ly some other U)rms of lever. i'Meas 
 
318 ESSBNTIAL,S TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 and ticks and bedbugs inoculate their victims, with 
 poisons from the last previous victim. Bubonic plague 
 is conveyed from rat to rat, and from rat to human, 
 by the little flea. Moral : Look out for the beds you 
 sleep in when traveling. Kill the rats, and drive out the 
 fleas, and flood the top of your malaria and yellow 
 fever breeding s\yamps with crude coal oil, once in 
 three or four weeks during the mosquito season. Our 
 state authorities are awaking up to the importance 
 of looking after this matter. If the people will only 
 wake up and co-operate these terrible diseases may be 
 held in check. 
 
 Bubonic plague has just been traced in California to 
 the ground scpiirrel. This was demonstrated by the 
 physicians of the United States Public Health and 
 Marine Hospital Service. Several cases occurring in 
 one locality were traced directly to the squirrel. Now 
 comes a war of extermination on the ground squirrel. 
 If the State spends a few millions in this scheme it 
 will help to rid the country of a pest that has alread\- 
 heretofore forfeited all rights to existence. 
 
 On Bathing. • 
 
 Every family ought to have a good bath room and 
 fixtures. Even the old farm house can be fitted up 
 with all the hot and cold water appliances at a. mod- 
 erate expense. At the present stage of civilization no 
 other thing is so important to the welfare of the family 
 as this. A long list of serious internal difficulties can 
 be nipped in the bud, at the very commencement, by a 
 good hot, full bath for twenty or thirty minutes, fol- 
 lowed with a vigorous rubbing with water at a tem- 
 perature ten or fifteen degrees cooler than the bath. 
 
POINTERS 319 
 
 Grippe, congestions of the lungs, liver, kidneys, 
 bowels or any other internal organs accompanied with 
 chilly skin will yield very promptly to these measures. 
 So will severe pains in almost any part of the body if 
 taken early. The skin can be made to hold fully one 
 third of all the blood of the body.; and this takes away 
 the pressure from the painful congested parts, and if 
 the patient is put to bed and kept extra warm for the 
 few hours following the bath, sure relief will generally 
 result. A case of nervous shock will yield quickly to 
 a good warm bath and rub. 
 
 Cool and cold bathing is tonic, stimulant, invigora- 
 ting, if used properly. Warm and hot baths are re- 
 laxing, and sedative, (tending to alleviate pain) and 
 debilitating if continued too long. The most natural 
 daily bath for tropical regions is sea or river bathing-. 
 For frigid temperatures the daily dry towel rub fol- 
 lowed with oil, under ordinary circumstances, is about 
 the safest form of skin treatment. An occasional water 
 bath at 70 to 90 degrees for cleanliness is a necessity. 
 For the Temperate Zone, variations to meet the 
 weather changes must be borne in mind. Turkish 
 and Russian baths are good for the strong and well 
 nourished. Alternations of heat and cold are the most 
 effective for permanently relieving pain and conges- 
 tion. Nothing will so soon increase the circulation 
 in any part of the body as sudden changes from hot 
 to cold water, repeated several times until the parts 
 treated are pressed full of blood. Always follow a 
 warm bath with a touch of water at least ten to thirty 
 degrees colder than the bath. 
 
320 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Sweating. 
 
 l'ers])irint;' frcelx' will not make you led weak and 
 tired, if yon drink plenl}- ni water at the time. The 
 cause of these feelin^i's is tliat the blood has been 
 thickened by drawing' the water out of it and the 
 heart and nerves are .having a harder time to do their 
 work than before. Replace the dirt}' water you have 
 drawn out of the body with a good supply of clean 
 ])ure liquid and }OU will feel as supple as a kid. Don't 
 tr}^ to draw water out of a dried up fevered body till 
 ^■ou put some in. Sweating brings discomfort unless 
 these facts are recognized. 
 
 Skin Foods. 
 
 We hear much about skin foods in these days of 
 new farigied notions and fads. You will observe, if 
 yon kee]) on the alert, that the}' all have to be well 
 rubbeil in. Xow don't forget that manipulation is al- 
 ways good in chronic cases of ncr\e and muscTe 
 troubles like rheumatism, neuralgia, paialysis and 
 kindred dit^iculties. In all these cases skin food, and 
 muscle food, and nerve food, and bone making ma- 
 terial are all excellent. lUit the best place to put these 
 foods is in the stomach, just swallow them and have 
 them digested, so they may l)e borne to the parts 
 in trouble, and be used as needed. The skin has no 
 digestive a])])aratus. We are not sa}-ing that inunc- 
 tions are not useful, for they are. }\u\ don't be hum- 
 bugged with the idea of feeding the body through the 
 skin, for it cannot be done. 
 
 Blood Purifiers. 
 
 Talk about blood purifiers. There is not as much 
 
POINTERS 321 
 
 virtue in all the medicines ever advertised or used by 
 Regulars or Quacks as blood purifiers, as in one good 
 sweat, preceded and followed by copious draughts of 
 pure water. We wish it were as easy to wash tin- 
 humbug out of the people's minds as to wash and 
 sweat the waste out of their l:)odies. Tlic doctors 
 sometimes gi\'e a simple harmless powder in a glass 
 of water every two hours. Water thus prepared al- 
 ways does good. 
 
 High Heels. 
 
 Backache and back headache are due in scores of 
 cases to this cause. They keep up a constant concus- 
 sion on the joints of the spine, until e\ cry portion ot 
 the spinal column is just bruised and sore and aching. 
 This is especially true when walking on a hard pa\e- 
 ment. The reasonal)le remedy is low rubber heels. 
 Don't think medicine or massage will cure you. Gi\e 
 the 1)o(l>' rest from its l)ruising. 
 
 Poverty Not a Complete Excuse. 
 
 Po\-ertv can be no excuse for a failure lo li\ e health- 
 full}-. We mean ordinary poverty, not the degraded 
 helpless poverty of the slums. Let us see. The poor 
 have just as good a chance to breathe as the wealthy 
 and air costs nothing yet. They can gel just as pure 
 water to <lriid< without extra expense. The cost of 
 wheat, oats, rye, barlew rice, ])eas, beans and lentils 
 and fruits generally is on an average about one-fourth 
 as much per pound as flesh. And every one of them 
 contains at least three limes as much nourishment. 
 That means that the nourishment in the Hesh cc")sls 
 twelve times as much as in the grains. In potatoes 
 
322 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 there is about the same amount of nutrition but of a 
 different class costing about one-twelfth to one-fif- 
 teenth as much as flesh. Here is a mighty saving; if 
 it were only taken into account it would soon clothe 
 the family. And there is the beer and wine, and tea 
 and cofifee and tobacco, and whiskey. Here is enough 
 expense, all useless, to build a house in a few years. 
 To be sure they cannot have as good houses but they 
 can save enough in diet and luxuries to soon build a 
 small comfortable house. I.ook the ground over care- 
 fully and }'OU may conclude that something beside 
 poverty stands in the way of reform and prosperity. 
 
 Brain Workers. 
 
 This class need more sleep than other men, though 
 they often exist with much less ; but it is always at the 
 expense of vitality. We see many of them prematurely 
 gray and enfeebled. Something is wrong when the 
 "wise men" fail to get in touch with natural law and 
 go down into untimely graves. The majority of brain 
 workers fail because they do not take proper nutrition 
 nor enough physical exercise to keep the physical and 
 mental forces well balanced. Mental power and en- 
 durance is dependent on the backing of physical 
 strength. An enfeebled body may be possessed of a 
 brain that will turn out some pointed, well polished 
 thoughts, but the capacity for production and endur- 
 ance all depends on a healthy even balance between 
 bone, muscle, nerve and brain. The brain worker will 
 accomplish twice as much in a lifetime by spending 
 half his waking hours in cheerful, interesting, useful 
 physical employment, than he will by crowding and 
 driving his brain for months and years at a time, until 
 
POINTERS 323 
 
 kis digestion is disordered, his mind clmuicd and his 
 bodily powers begin to decay. 
 
 There is many a silvered head and grizzled beard 
 and many a stoop shouldered old man at sixty who 
 ought still to be in the very prime of life. If men take 
 care of themselves by keeping an even balance, 
 through temperance and moderate labor, they ought 
 to be able to do their best mental work after they are 
 sixty. It is not brain work that kills. It is worry and 
 lack of proper food and consistent physical employ- 
 ment to sustain the constitutional vim on which clear- 
 headed mental activity depends. It is this change to 
 pleasing physical labor which gives rest to the brain 
 and prepares it for other conquests. If any class of 
 men ought to set an example of consistency in the care 
 of the health it ought to be the ministry, the literary 
 men and the physicians. If these make an excuse of 
 their duties to trample under foot natural law what 
 will the people do? In these remarks we are not ig- 
 noring other Laws of Health. 
 
 How Do You Feel ? 
 
 This is a dangerous question to ask a chronic in- 
 valid. The most of them can feel anything that their 
 imagination can conjure. If some one tells a story 
 of a bad tape worm or of a frog in the stomach, (the 
 most impossible thing on earth,) or of worms under 
 the skin, or of some one dying of abcess of the liver; 
 instantly that is just what is the matter with one of 
 those hypochondriacs who happen to hear the unfor- 
 tunate remarks. This class of patients should, if pos- 
 sible, be placed where they will hear of nothing but 
 life. Even after months the question "How do you 
 
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 324 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 feel ?" may spriiii^' the unhappy combination and set 
 goin!4 a regiment of symptoms that will take hours, 
 if not clays, to subdue. And while you are about it 
 you'd better catch and shut up those old busy-bodies 
 who run to every sick bedside and tell how thev knew 
 some one "sick just as you are"" and Imw it fmallv 
 turned into a cancer and the poor man died. ( )r if some 
 ne has a puncture of any part of the tlesh this foolish 
 conceited old meddler gets there and Ijogins to tell 
 how she knew this one and that one and the other 
 one; they each of them had just such a puncture "as 
 you've got" and "ever}'one of them died of lockjaw." 
 iJetter for the sick and those who ha\e tlie bills to 
 pay, if such comforters were in jail being su])ported 
 at pidjlic expense. Sometimes the doctor or nurse 
 will <.]o\) cner along this line, ddie doctor who labors 
 to im])ress his patients with the seriousness of their 
 cases, and tries to make them think they are worse 
 ()f\ than they really are, will surely be found out in 
 time; and he will be relegated and despised as he 
 ought to be. He ma}' sticceed in increasing his bills 
 for a time, l)ut it will in the long run prove fully as ex- 
 pensixe to him as to his patients. But there are a 
 few cases where it is hard to make jiatients realize 
 the importance of taking i)r(iper care of themselves, 
 but these do not form a sufificient excuse for the "reg- 
 ular" ((uackery so nuich in xogue in these days of 
 "graft". He a little shy of the doctor who always finds 
 a "floating"" kidney or a "diseased"' ap])endix. Dri\'e 
 out of the sick room and out of the house and as far 
 as possible out of the comnumity e\ery clement that 
 is adverse to life and rest and ])eace. 
 
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 Hunger and Appetite. 
 
 Hunger is the real (Icniand of the body for nourisli- 
 ment ; appetite is the demand of the nerves of taste. 
 It clamors just as loudly as hunger; sometimes much 
 louder, llr.ngcr stimulates true natural appetite. Mere 
 appetite may exist for something that is neither nu- 
 tritious nor wholesome. Through the results of taking 
 stimulants, unnatural appetites are formed which are 
 very hard to break. The use of stimulating foods, like 
 pork and all sorts of flesh and condiments, often costs 
 the bod}' such an effort at digestion that as soon as 
 the stomach is empty there comes a feeling of faint- 
 ness and "all gone feeling" which almost unmans the 
 individual. This exhaustion is caused by oxerwork on 
 the part of the digestive apparatus. Any article the 
 use of which creates a craving a])petite for itself which 
 no other good food will satisfy is an unsafe article to 
 use, because it tends to make the -aiipetite superior 
 to the man ; to create the slavery of indulgence. Pure 
 heaven-ordained foods never stimulate an overgrowth 
 of appetite in such a way that some other good food 
 will not fill the immediate demand. 
 
 The things for which appetite is most likel\- to grow 
 and clamor are alcoholic stinnilants, tol)acco. tea and 
 cofifee, flesh meats and condiments. This is because 
 of the poisonous exciting elements they contain. They 
 therefore are unfit for the use of mankind. 
 
 God gave man hunger and natural ai)petite so he 
 would enjoy eating and drinking good things. The 
 man with a depraved aj^iietite does not have nuich 
 taste for natural foods. The}- are too tame; not strong 
 enough in flavor to meet the demands of his appetite. 
 This should he good evidence to him that he is getting 
 
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 over the line on to dangerous ground. When he comes 
 back and finds that really good things do taste good, 
 then he will be in danger of overdoing in quantity to 
 make up for what the food lacks in stimulation. It 
 takes time to conquer the habits of a lifetime. But 
 there is joy at the end of, and even during the conflict, 
 for the man knows every step of the way that God is 
 helping him and he feels assured that he will come out 
 on the victory side of the battle. 
 
 Feed the children so they Avill not develop evil, en- 
 slaving appetites. 
 
 Incentives to Reform. 
 
 There is much less excuse for a neglect to reform, 
 now, than there was fifty years ago. Then the aver- 
 age miller in the United States did not know what 
 "Graham" flour meant. There was scarcely a grocery 
 store in all the land where common oatmeal could be 
 bought. There were neither split peas, package foods, 
 nor canned goods of any kind. Flaked or rolled 
 grains had not yet be thought of. "Hog and hominy," 
 fine flour bread and biscuit, and ham and eggs, pork 
 and cabbage, and meat and potatoes ; these were thef 
 standard articles. Some seasons brought a plentiful 
 supply of pancakes and molasses or pork fats, and 
 "spare ribs," sausage, "headcheese" and "souse." 
 These "luxuries" kept the old style allopathic doctor 
 very busy with his i)ill bags and decoctions. 
 
 Now a most marA-elous transformation has taken 
 place. All the standard h\-gienic foods of the world 
 are packed on the shelves of every grocery store in 
 all the countrv. The variety is almost bewildering. 
 
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 Canned goods and tropical fruits from the ends of 
 the world can be had in every city and town. 
 
 The bakeries are furnishing fourfold the variety of 
 wholesome bake stuffs they did. 
 
 Greenhouses keep the supply of garden vegetables 
 on hand the year around. 
 
 The improvement of fruits and berries and grapes 
 and their almost universal production is beyond all 
 comparison with any similar progress in the history 
 of civilization. And what has been the result? Those 
 who keep the statistics have demonstrated that the 
 average length of life has been increased from thirty- 
 two years to thirty-six or thirty-seven. Infant mortal- 
 ity has been lessened one half in our leading cities, 
 and a better system of nursing has been developed, 
 which is saving many lives which otherwise would 
 be sacrificed to ignorance and neglect. 
 
 We would not be faithful to our task were we to 
 pass by the improvements in the homes of the people. 
 The bath-room and hot water system were almost 
 unknown in the home a generation ago, and the care 
 of the city water supply was a mere apology. 
 
 What a wonderful change has been made too in the 
 preparation of clothing. Then people froze and suf- 
 fered in their half sufficient garments, in \vinter. Now 
 the poorest can have comfortable feet and limits if 
 they will. The felts and arctics and leggings have 
 taken the place of the old stifif leather boots. 
 
 The Union underwear, and other combination gar- 
 ments leave little excuse for hanging burdens upon 
 the hips. The quality, too, of the garments from the 
 lightest gauze to the heaviest weight, all ready to 
 wear, for all ages, sizes and sexes is almost beyond 
 
328 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 comprehension. All these good things and a thon- 
 sand more we have not space to mention have come 
 to us since our childhood years; chiefly because of 
 the spirit of reform that took possession of such men as 
 Sylvester Graham and Drs. Trail, Jackson, Dio Lewis, 
 Gunn, Beach and a host of others who sympathized 
 with them and have taken uj) their work and car- 
 ried it forward. One whole denomination of Chris- 
 tians, the Seventh Day Adventists. ought to be 
 credited for the part they have taken in this work. 
 In the spring of 1864 these people adopted true health 
 reform as a part of their religions faith and have 
 ever since diligently proclaimed the gospel of "the 
 life that now is" in connection with the Gospel of 
 "the one to come." At the present time their workers 
 are in every land and their institutions for the allevia- 
 tion of human suffering are springing up everywhere. 
 How much their influence has had to do with bringing 
 about the blessed results we have lived to see, may 
 not be known till the records of Heaven are opened. 
 There are a host of others beside them too who have 
 been faithful workers in this cause of health and true 
 tem Iterance. In the early days of this reform the 
 mildest epithet applied to the faithful workers, who 
 saw things that others through ])rejudice failed to see, 
 was simply "Cranks." It was in those times that this 
 word was coined, ])erhaps in i)art for their especial 
 benefit. lUit epithets and rcjjroaches never stay the 
 ])rogress of true reform. 
 
 Mankind, generally, want to live, and when they get 
 their eyes opened to their better interests nothing- 
 will hold them back. 
 
 Now those who want ty cat and drink properly, 
 
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 breathe right, dress right, and keep comfortable and 
 restful, find almost everything", comparatively, ready 
 for their encouragement. Indeed in some quarters 
 it is becoming rather popular to be a health reformer. 
 "Other men have labored and we are entered upon the 
 fruition of their work." If we are as faithful as they 
 were the coming twenty years will see greater things 
 save some of us many afflictions, and many hard bat- 
 tles later in life. 
 
 Hints on House Building. 
 
 The weakest, cheapest, poorest part of civilized 
 houses generally is the floor. The walls and roof 
 are thick and heavy, but the floor is just one meager 
 thickness of inch lumber, matched and planed and 
 possibly lined with a thin veneer of half-inch boards. 
 This poor apology for protection leaves the floor the 
 coldest part of the house, just where it ought to be 
 the warmest, and consequently the most of the fam- 
 ily all winter long suffer with cold feet and limbs 
 and all the wretchedness of colds, coughs, bronchitis, 
 catarrh and pneumonia and a lot of poor religion be- 
 sides. The very least that ought to be done for the 
 lower floor is to lay first of all, one good close floor of 
 single surfaced boards; matched and planed would be 
 better. After all the rest of the house is finished, ex- 
 cept setting the base boards and fitting the doors, cover 
 this floor with good building paper, and then lay a 
 good floor to suit in each room of the house. This 
 paper lining not only insures warmth, but shuts out 
 the cellar and .ground air from the house. The extra 
 cost will be more than saved f"r fuel in three years. 
 
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330 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 As the important thing is to keep the feet and limbs 
 warm in cold weather a step further toward success 
 will consist in heating the floors to the temperature 
 of say 70 to 80 degrees, about the warmth of the soil 
 on an average summer day. There would be enough 
 heat rising from such a floor to keep the air in the 
 room warm enough for body comfort. And putting 
 the heat right where it is most needed will be a great 
 source of economy. It will not require half the fuel 
 and expense that is now needed, to keep the entire 
 house comfortable. This may all be accomplished by 
 running the steam or hot water pipes underneath and 
 next to the floors. Hot water heating is now by far 
 the most economical of any means used. It is per- 
 fectly feasible for old coimtry homes and pays for 
 itself in a few years in health and comfort besides 
 the money saving which is no small item. 
 
 If the lower floor is to be made of cement, the pipes 
 may be run through this from side to side two or 
 three inches below the surface and connected with the 
 furnace the same as now. Each floor being separately 
 connected and heated would make it possible to shut 
 off the heat or turn it on as the conditions might 
 demand. This would keep the heater in the basement 
 and do away with radiators, almost if not entirely. 
 If cement floors are used under this plan the great 
 objection to them vanishes; they will no longer \)c 
 cold. 
 
 The house in general should be built so that the 
 ventilation can be fully controlled ; this means in ;i 
 wooden house good building paper between the walls. 
 Perfect and complete ventilation can be secured by 
 letting in a stream of cold air into a jacket about the 
 
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 heater and conveying it thence in small pipes lo everv 
 part of the house ; or window ventilation may be used 
 quite successfully as now in some instances. 
 
 Antitoxins and Animal Serums. 
 
 These may be of some use when the disease has 
 taken hold of the patient. But if the primary work of 
 iiygiene were attended to properly in time, there would 
 be little or no occasion for them. To illustrate: take 
 diphtheria; if the proper precautions were used in de- 
 veloping- vital resistance people would not take cold, 
 or have congested throats, and then the germs of 
 diphtheria could not multiply, and uo antitoxin would 
 be called for. 
 
 As said in another place, a strong, well person can 
 carry diphtheria germs in the throat for several days, 
 until they perish and are thrown out, and suffer no 
 inconvenience whatever. It is a weakened throat that 
 allows the germs to develop and produce the disease. 
 Shall we labor for the prevention of the disease, which 
 is primary hygiene, or shall we wait for a chance to 
 stay its progress after well begun? It seems as if 
 this work of hindering the disease was entirel>- sec- 
 ondary to the work of prevention and might justly be 
 called secondary hygiene. There is an evil in this 
 whole search for artificial specifics. It encourages in- 
 dulgence in wr(Mig habits, and carelessness in general, 
 concerning hygienic measures. Those given to this 
 work cease to study Primary Hygiene, and the pet)])le 
 set to wondering over the new and marvelous inven- 
 tions of modern science, forget the simplicity of na- 
 ture and neglect the primary i)reventive agencies. If 
 the same energy were used in teaching tlie people 
 
332 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 strictly preventive measures there would soon be little 
 use for serums or antitoxins. These criticisms are 
 true in general. The average medical man seldom 
 spends any time teaching preventive measures. His 
 business is trying to cure disease. There are some 
 grand exceptions to these sweeping statements. Many 
 medical men in connection with state and city boards 
 of health are doing all that lies in their power to set 
 before the people the true primary preventive meas- 
 ures. This is true also of the best sanitariums. One 
 reason why the writer was led to make these sweeping 
 criticisms was his attendance at a State Tuberculosis 
 Convention held in an Eastern city of first rank in 1907. 
 Every effort was made to show how to cure consump- 
 tion and some few things about ventilation and pure 
 air as preventives, but not one word in any way to 
 show the people how to keep from taking cold, or how 
 to emancipate the diaphragm by dispensing with waist 
 bands, which are the real beginnings of nearly all cases 
 of lung consumption. 
 
 The tubercle bacillus does not trouble sound, vig- 
 orous lungs. It is only when the lungs are debilitated 
 by disuse, and congested by colds, that they become 
 a fertile soil for the bacillus. And not a word was said 
 in that convention concerning the dangers in the dis- 
 eased flesh of tuberculous animals that are slaughtered 
 and sold in every market in America; nor anything 
 concerning diseased milk and butter and cheese. 
 
 It may not be kind to ask the medical profession to 
 saw off the limb on which they are standing. But 
 some of their own number will use the saw out of 
 pure love for humanity, and they will be the men of 
 power in their communities in the years to come. We 
 
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 know of people by the score who once were invalids, 
 who for years have not known an ache or pain, jusi 
 thru results of Primary Hygiene. Thousands are now 
 in this school, and more are entering as fast as things 
 are made plain and clear so that the common peopU' 
 can understand An ounce of Hygiene is worth a ton 
 of medicine. 
 
 "To be Hygienic in spots may add years to one's 
 life." A moment of attention to causes may sa\ c 
 years of suffering with all the consequences. 
 
 A dollar's worth of time spent in prevention may 
 save a fortune that w«iuld later be vainly spent on 
 sickness. 
 
 lUit is it a mercenary affair after all? Is not life 
 worth living? If not let us make it worth living, l)y 
 living it right. 
 
 Are There Other Essentials to Life and Health ? 
 
 If any one produces anything which he is sure is 
 necessary to life outside of the true Essentials, he must 
 either demonstrate that he is a creator or else admit 
 that his discovery may be classified under one of tlu' 
 Seven recognized Essentials; or he may show that 
 there is another essential which has been left out of 
 the account; to all of which we offer no objection. 
 Let the work of simplifying the Science of Hygiene 
 go on. The people cannot know too much. It is pos- 
 sible some may for want of real wisdom make a foolish 
 use of what they know, or think they know. This 
 does not furnish a reason why cultured, well educated 
 people or any others should not know enough to keep 
 well. Knowing the terrors of sickness and disease we 
 persuade our fellow-men to be true to their Creator. 
 
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 first of all in honoring the Laws of this Life, which are 
 based on right relations to the Seven Essentials. 
 
 Race Suicide and Sexual Sins. 
 
 The appeal to moral principle to stay the progress 
 of these evils has almost lost all influence, probably 
 chiefly because so many professed Christian teachers 
 have become adverse critics of the Bible, from which 
 most of the moral appeal has been drawn. This book, 
 especially the moral law of the ten commandments, 
 has nearly ceased to have any restraining influence ex- 
 cept with a few. So it is almost useless to make an 
 appeal on moral grounds alone, to a large class of man- 
 kind. 
 
 The natural incipient instincts of motherhood are 
 seen in every little girl, and were they allowed to 
 ripen into legitimate fruition in mature years, 
 ma'ny a woman who in her middle years has 
 tilled an untimely grave, or languished as an 
 invalid, or occupied a cell in some insane asylum 
 or prison, might have been surrounded by a happy 
 family and been found filling an honorable and useful 
 place in sdcietv. The moral restraints must be heeded 
 or an appeal must be made to self interest to stay the 
 terrible tide. If fathers and mothers would inquire 
 of true physicians concerning the fruits of these 
 criminal ways, and set the facts they learn before 
 the youth, ere they are contaminated by corrupt ideas, 
 what a world of suffering might be saved. The youth- 
 ful mind once impressed with the consequences of 
 unlawful sexual intercourse and criminal abortion, 
 would have a barrier established against this class 
 of crimes that no ordinary temptations could break 
 
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 down. To fathers and mothers more tlian to any- 
 one else belongs this duty. The clergy and physicians 
 will not be held guiltless if they neglect to sound the 
 warning. These bloody crimes are more common 
 among so-called Christian nations than among some 
 of the less enlightened. 
 
 If the clergy continue t<> break down the moral re- 
 >traints, through treating lightly the old P)ible, some 
 one must hold up the physical danger signals and 
 show the youth some of the horrible results of sexual 
 sin. There are derelicts and wrecks in almost every 
 community, that ought to l)e used by fathers and 
 mothers as object lessons to warn the youth. Unless 
 parents and those who assume to guide the steps of 
 mankind take the responsibility of shaping youthful 
 sentiment more than they are now doing, we shall 
 soon be living over again the days of Sodom and 
 Gomorrah. 
 
 True, something is being done, but not the tenth 
 part to exalt true manhood and womanhood and 
 motherhood, and establish the sanctity of the home. 
 Parents, keep the confidence of your children at the 
 cost of everything else. Trample under foot the cor- 
 rupt sentiments that now exist in what is sometimes 
 called good society. Make your children know that 
 the murder of the unborn is a detestable crime, no 
 matter what social circle sanctions it. Educate them 
 to find pleasure in self denial in lesser matters, and 
 they will follow your example of sell control in the 
 sexual relations of life. Much of our so-called Chris- 
 tian civilization sentiment, on sexual relations would 
 be a disgrace to savages. Men and women who call 
 themselves civilized, wreak vengeance witli lynch law 
 
336 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 on others, for crimes no worse than they themselves 
 are guilty of. Let men first learn, then practice, and 
 then impress on their offspring the lessons of self 
 denial and control that their own better instincts ap- 
 prove. Then will professing Christians and others 
 who want to be called decent have less for which to 
 hang their heads in shame than they now have. The 
 cure must begin at home; then it will permeate and 
 renovate society. The best evidence we can give 
 in favor of any system of principles is the evidence 
 that we ourselves believe it, and this evidence is the 
 evidence of our example. 
 
 A long list of the most terrible of human maladies 
 is the direct result of indifference to these princi- 
 ples. Men, so loathsome with corruption that it is 
 more than hardship to care for them, are found among 
 the disobedient. And physicians hardened by contact 
 with such cases attempt to fatten oft' these miserable 
 wretches. To be sure many of those who do this are 
 called quacks. You can see their advertisements in 
 every newspaper. Rut there are others. These physi- 
 cians ought to publish to young men and 
 women and fathers and mothers the awfulness of the 
 results with which they are dealing. But will they ? 
 Probably not. They will most of them wait for a 
 further harvest of similar cases to ripen. Disappoint 
 them, young man, young woman ; disappoint them liy 
 learning to crucify the flesh with the affections and 
 lusts. 
 
 Love of Life. 
 
 No sane natural man ever committed suicide and no 
 dull, stupid, besotted half-wrecked specimen of hu- 
 
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 mauity was ever capable of appreciating eternal life. 
 Men blunt their own sensibilities with drugs or nar- 
 cotics before attempting to crush out life in them- 
 selves or others. To despise and cast away life, a 
 preparation of mind is necessary, and the opposite 
 preparation of mind and of the nervous system is nec- 
 essary before any of Adam's fallen race can rise to 
 a full appreciation of life, here and hereafter. 
 
 No man can lightly, thoughtlessly part with a thing 
 that is and has been a pleasure to him, nor can he long 
 tolerate the possession of that which brings onl}' 
 wretchedness and continual dissatisfaction. This en- 
 ables us to understand why some men commit suicide 
 and why so many fail to have any interest in the life to 
 come. Occasionally some individual, well instructed 
 in the hope of the life set forth ni the gospel, rises 
 superior to his physical suffering and triumphs even 
 at the last moment. But mental dullness, stupor and 
 decay, whether from gross habits of life or from dis- 
 appointment, sorrow or anxiety, has only a depressing 
 effect and lessens the hold on life. So does the indug- 
 gence of anger, hate, jealousy, envy and every evil 
 thought. Worry and anxiety are laden wath death. 
 
 .So it must be plain that he who would love life and 
 see good days must not only refrain his lips from evil 
 and his tongue from speaking guile, but have his men- 
 tal condition back of these actions pure and clean and 
 hopeful. iUit if he would have this self-control hv 
 must take such care of his body as will tend all the 
 time to keep it in a healthy normal condition, so that 
 the mind can partake of the bodily comfort. The all 
 around care of this life and its relationships is essential 
 
338 ESSENTIAT^S TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 to a preparation for and appreciation of the life to 
 come. 
 
 The writer can never blot from his mind the memo- 
 ries of childhood years, when the family indulged in 
 pork and stimulants and all the abominations of 
 heathen cookery in a civilized so-called Christian land, 
 and how thru bodily wretchedness there was an ever- 
 present tendency to contemplate suicide. Cut the 
 knowledge of the principles contained in this book 
 came into the family and were accepted and what a 
 marvelous change ! The lives that had been hamp- 
 ered by violations of natural law began to bloom with 
 health and comfort. Every one in the family was lib- 
 erated from the bondage of a misery that liad brooded 
 like an incubus over the household. This was forty- 
 five years ago. The health of all seemed to "spring 
 forth speedily" and, with the writer, has continued to 
 improve constantly. Thoughts of suicide ceased with- 
 in a few days and the question, "Is life worth living?" 
 has been answered in the aflfirmative. 
 
 Like any other thing on earth life must be used right 
 or it ceases to be appreciated. Those who are indif- 
 ferent to this life will never care enough about the 
 life to come to obtain it. It costs self-control and cool, 
 careful, deliberate planning, to keep in order such a 
 piece of mechanism as the human body. He who 
 loves life will take the same care of it as of anything 
 else he loves and when his sensibilities are brightened 
 up to a keen sense of appreciation he will be in a con- 
 dition to appreciate the life to come and the prepara- 
 tion for it. Life is more than mere existence here. 
 
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 Who are Safe Guides? 
 
 The safest guide is one who is best acquainted witii 
 the way, other things being equal. But don't forget 
 that it is much more sensible to keep in the way, than 
 to permit one's self to go astray and then hire a guide 
 to get you back into the right path.. We have endeav- 
 ored to point out the way. If it has been clearly done 
 the reader will perceive that, to be an all-around guide, 
 one must have a good practical working knowledge of 
 the Seven Essentials to Life. He may not be defi- 
 cient in one and be fully equipped. Look over the 
 situation for a moment. Here are those who cure 
 everything by electricity, (ir ]n-ctcnd to; and here are 
 others who use Osteopath}- or Massage for all cases. 
 And others treat everything with hot and cold water. 
 Others assure you that all you need is a system of 
 electric light appliances. Another does all his cures 
 with the Russian bath. Another with the hot air 
 appliances. Another takes his cure-all out of a bottle ; 
 another pretends to accomplish everything by diet or 
 physical training. Some use only mental agencies. 
 
 Some combine two or more of these natural agencies. 
 It is not difficult to see that all these are very partial 
 methods. While each one may find scores of cases 
 that he can help, yet there are many others for which 
 he could d(i little or nothing. The men of value and 
 power in this work will have all these aids to cure 
 at hand, and will know how to adapt those needed to 
 the case in hand. They will know how to put the 
 healing environment in order and place the patient 
 under the l)est possible conditions to help nature in 
 throwing off the disease. The wisest thing for those 
 to do who arc partial in the use of remedies is to 
 
340 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 enlarge their capabilities by increasing their knowl- 
 edge of the essentials of life and health. And the 
 wisest thing the people can do is to patronize those 
 who have the broadest training and the most complete 
 facilities. 
 
 But it is not enough to know that a man has had 
 a medical education. Physicians, after all, are born, 
 not made. We have musicians and artists who are 
 the masters of the profession who, like the old negro, 
 "Were not colored, but were born so." So there 
 are leading men in the profession today who never 
 had a full training in college. They just naturally 
 took to caring for the sick, got a county license 
 perhaps at first and have had success all their lives. 
 It makes a difference whether a man is just naturally 
 following the calling for which he was gifted by 
 nature or whether he is in the business just for the 
 shekels. 
 
 The gifts of healings were set in the church of Jesus 
 Christ with other gifts necessary for the welfare of 
 humanity. Let the church so conduct herself that 
 this gift with others may be restored ; then will we 
 have heaven appointed men to preside over our hos- 
 pitals and sanitariums, and also to administer healing 
 power in the homes of the people. 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 What Shall We Call This System of Cure? 
 
 The use of water has already been named Hydro- 
 pathy, and later Hydro-therapy. The use of light is 
 Photo-therapy, attention to food has been called Med- 
 ical Dietetics, and exercise is called IMedico-Physical- 
 Therapeutics, mental rest cure is Psycho-therapy. No 
 one yet has invented a name for tlie breathing cure 
 better than Lung Gymnastics or Pneuma-therapy. 
 
 We have set forth a system which includes every- 
 thing on which human life and comfort depends. It 
 applies the laws of prevention to the work of restora- 
 tion. Hygiene is the name of the science of preven- 
 tion. When we make cure depend on the use of pre- 
 ventive agents — on Hygiene — can we do better than 
 to call our science of cure HYGIEO-THERAPY? 
 This term has been in use a number of years and is 
 the most fitting of any yet coined. This is cure by 
 prevention and the removal of causes. It is a system 
 which has little use for dangerous experimentation 
 and guess work. It is, in short, The Science of Cure. 
 It is the knowledge of prevention and cure, set in 
 order, simplified, classified; and makes use of every 
 known preventive and healing agency, and exalts sur- 
 gery to its true position under God's great Law of 
 Rest. 
 
 ft is so simple that some people ignore it and some 
 
342 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 medical men make light of it, but yet it is growing 
 into favor because it has been forced upon the world 
 by a few faithful, earnest leaders among men. Some 
 of these have brought forward but one idea at a time 
 and have pushed their ideas so vigorously that they 
 were called cranks. But great truths suffer no loss 
 because of epithets, and the system has continued to 
 grow until it has reached important proportions, and 
 has a world-wide recognition. 
 
 A few years since the writer was asked by a leading 
 medical man, "What is your mission?" The answer 
 was, "We are engaged in the work of trying to teach 
 the people how to take care of their health; in short, 
 how to keep well." He replied, "Well, you have un- 
 dertaken a thankless task." That is the way many 
 doctors regard Hygiene. 
 
 Like the man who was asked, when his house was 
 leaking, why he did not shingle it, replied, "In fair 
 weather it does not need shingling, and when it rains 
 I can't shingle it." So the greatest objection to 
 hygiene, is when one is well, he don't need to care 
 for his health and when he is sick he has none to care 
 for, and therefore cannot. And the only other objec- 
 tion is' that it is more trouble and takes more time 
 and brains to use Hygienic precautions and remedies 
 than it docs to swallow a few doses of poison. This 
 is the way many people view the health question. 
 l')Ut in spite of this the system is forging ahead won- 
 derfully. For fifty years the writer has watched the 
 progress of this hygienic movement. Mighty things 
 have been accomplished. Thousands of people are 
 enlisted in this w^ork all over the world and scores of 
 sanitariums are in operation where this system of prin- 
 
WHAT SHALL WE CALL THIS SYSTEM 343 
 
 ciples prevail ; and thousands of homes are prepared 
 to help their neighbors into a knowledge of how to 
 take care of this life. Many noble scientific physicians 
 are heart and soul in the work, and earnestly engaged 
 in original scientific research, both in America and 
 in Iuirni)e; and now they are extending their field of 
 operation into Asia and the Dark Continent. .Australia 
 has responded to the voice of reform and thousands 
 there and in New Zealand are returning to obedience 
 to Natural Law. It is a glorious Christian w'ork ; free 
 from all occultism and mystery, from quackery and 
 humbug. The subject of Life is dealt with as rea- 
 sonably and sensibly as any other theme on this 
 planet, and common people can grasp the principles 
 and apply them successfully. 
 
 One who has been benefited catches the spirit of 
 benevolence that is the soul of the whole system and 
 labors to pass on the blessing to others. The word 
 of God to Abraham is becoming the inspiration of the 
 movement, "I will bless thee and thou shall be a bless- 
 ing." It is a pleasure to the writer to help pass it 
 on in the written form to thousands and millions who 
 have not yet heard the welcome sound. There is 
 life and tranquillity for thousands who now sufifer. 
 There are fields of service opening before hundreds 
 of young men and women who are learning to apply 
 these principles to the healing of the sick. 
 
 There are greater things yet in store for the world 
 along this line. May the reader catch the -spirit of 
 this reform and become an integral part of the system, 
 and a full and complete partaker of the life that now 
 is, and finally have this life translated into that which 
 is to come, riun we shall know better, the purposes 
 
344 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 of existence, and untrammelled by infirmity study the 
 sciences of creation and salvation, through the unend- 
 ing years of eternal life ; in a land "Where the in- 
 habitants shall not say I am sick," and where "None 
 shall hurt or destroy in all God's holy mountain ;" 
 where "There shall be no more sickness, nor sorrow, 
 nor sighing, nor any more pain." Where all will 
 partake of the tree of life and be like Him who is the 
 author of life. "And this is life eternal, that they might 
 know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom 
 Thou hast sent." "For bodily exercise profiteth for 
 a little season, but Godliness is profitable in all things, 
 having the promise of life that now is, and of that 
 which is to come." 
 
 When rightly viewed even "The heavens declare 
 the glory of God and the firmament showeth His 
 handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech and night 
 unto night showeth knowledge ;" and "The invisible 
 things of Him since the creation of the world are 
 clearly seen, being perceived through the things that 
 are made ; even His everlasting power and divinity, 
 that they may be without excuse." (Romans 1 :20, 
 Am. Rev.) Thus if our vision is clear we may see 
 the character of God in all His works, and we certainly 
 ought to see it in those things that are nearest to us — 
 the Laws of our being on which life immediately 
 depends. And then we may know^ if we prove to Him 
 that we appreciate this life and its divinely appointed 
 environments, that He will surely bestow the life that 
 is to come. The best proof that we can give that 
 we are in harmony with Him. is to honor Him with 
 the life He has given us. If men could only grasp 
 the thought that in dealing with light, water, air and 
 
WHAT SHALL WE CALL THIS SYSTEM 345 
 
 food and their own bodies and minds, they are 
 dealing with the things of God, and that there is 
 a Divine inspiration in knowing how to appreciate 
 this life, then would they reach beyond and feel the 
 power of those great moral truths that shine in the 
 law spoken from Sinai, and w^ere exemplified in the 
 life of that Alan of Nazareth. 
 
 Men of Value. 
 
 The man who saves the people by preventive meas- 
 ures from the ravages of an epidemic, is worth al- 
 most infinitely more to a community than the man 
 who saves the lives of half the people from the scourge 
 after it has come. The first is using hygienic knowl- 
 edge primarily for prevention. Few people see or 
 understand the value of his work, even though he 
 may have saved hundreds of lives. The other man 
 is using hygienic knowledge secondarily, for cure; 
 the people in this case feel their need of help because 
 the scourge is upon them, and if this man saves a 
 small portion of the community 1)}^ his skill, he will 
 be lauded to the heavens while he lives, and have a 
 monument erected to his memory after he is dead, just 
 because the people personally experienced the neces- 
 sities of their case. 
 
 We need more primary hygiene. More true unself- 
 ish workers who are willing to labor for humanity 
 and take God for at least part of the pay. The people 
 must be made intelligent in regard to this life and 
 be taught to appreciate its ]Mivileges and obligations 
 or they will ne\-er l)e ]>rc])ared for the life to come. 
 
 Back to Nature. 
 
 We hear the cry on every hand "Back to Nature." 
 
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346 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 But what is nature? It is undefinable, like the laws 
 of life; only in the light of the classification we have 
 used in this book. Nature is our environment on this 
 earth as expressed in the Seven Essentials which pro- 
 duce and sustain life. We ascribe almost everything 
 to Nature. We may become idolators before we are 
 aware, if we are not already. Whence came nature? 
 From the hand of Jehovah, through Jesus Christ. 
 
 Quackery. 
 
 We have thousands of faddists in our times all cry- 
 ing "Back to Nature." One has a health food which 
 if he can sell at his price will make him a millionaire 
 in short order. We are not condemning the foods ; 
 some of them are most excellent. Another has a sys- 
 tem of physical training on which everything depends, 
 but the price is prohibitive for the common people. 
 xA-nother has some patent appliance, which is all im- 
 portant. But you may not receive the benefit without 
 paying a special price for his consent. Another has 
 a secret remedy. Another is offering for sale special 
 skill at an exhorbitant price. And still another who is 
 better organized and therefore stronger is fixing up 
 the legal safe-guards so that the people are to be 
 protected from everybody but himself. All these 
 methods have in them the very essence of quackery, 
 which is self advancement through money gain ; fat- 
 tening ofif the miseries and necessities of mankind. 
 Do we not need a dififercnt class of men to care for 
 suffering humanity? Men moved by unselfish Chris- 
 tian impulses? Men who will connect their suffering 
 fellows with God through nature, rather than with 
 themselves? There are men, plenty of them, skilled 
 
WHAT SHALL WE CALL THIS SYSTEM 347 
 
 men too, who are cinite fully perpared to help hu- 
 manity, so far as intellectual acquirements are con- 
 cerned, but the motive of money getting prevents their 
 bearing responsibility in an unselfish cause. And there 
 is a multitude of men and women, both professional 
 and other who are laboring with might and main to 
 guard the people through education from the efifects 
 of ignorance. The people do not need to be protected 
 from the other fellow, once they know how to care 
 for themselves. These professional men are Doctors 
 of Hygiene in reality if not in name, and so are many 
 of the people, and there ought to be more of them 
 trained and skilled in the art of prevention. There 
 is a mighty work to be done and the people are being 
 aroused. Shall not we personally be in the front rank 
 in the matter of individual hygiene? 
 
 Some day we and our friends will awaken fully to 
 the idea that Hygiene, or better, Hygieo-therapy, is 
 prevention all the time, while the old medical notion 
 is only a doubtful prevention perhaps at the eleventh 
 hour. Then will the Hygieo-therapist be honored and 
 exalted. This system of hygiene is the true founda- 
 tion of all efforts for relieving human physical suf- 
 fering. 
 
 No argument is needed to show that the sciences of 
 Medicine, Surgery and Bacteriology are only parts of 
 the great science of Hygiene. The giving of poisons 
 internally as medicine will some day be left out. It 
 is not seventy-five years since the use of water in 
 fevers was absolutely forbidden by the Afedical Pro- 
 fession and strong poisons used in abundance. This 
 giving of poisons has continued to be quite a flourish- 
 ing part of the business, but the time has at last conu- 
 
348 l^SSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 when thousands look npon the u.se of poison druj^s 
 as a sort of dignified system of guess work. There 
 is no sound science in it. bacteriology and the study 
 of germicides and antiseptics will increase in im- 
 portance. So will every branch of true hygienic 
 science until temperatures by means of water, and 
 antiseptics will be the only things used in fevers. \Miat 
 changes liave already ccTuie! and still others are over- 
 due. 
 
 Study This Subject. 
 
 Go back and considei the classification, under the 
 tabular views. Study it. Criticise it. Take it apart, 
 and ]nit it together. You cannot lose any of the parts; 
 it hangs together like a chain. The more you consider 
 the classification of all things curati\e under the Seven 
 Foundations of nature, the more will the subject en- 
 large upon your hands, and the more wdll you sec its 
 completeness and simplicity. The writer has no 
 greater wish for himself than that he may live to see 
 this complete system of Hygiene accepted by sound- 
 minded people, until everywhere the cr)' shall rise 
 to heaven, "O, God, send us a knowledge of this life. 
 Teach us how to appreciate it. Teach us how to care 
 for it. iViake us sense Thy love and power that placed 
 us here. Help us make this life the beginnings of the 
 life to come. For Christ's sake who has created and 
 is ready to redeem all things in Thy great Name." 
 And let this prayer begin to be answered in every 
 reader by the redemption from the violation of every 
 known natural law, which shall follow in every in- 
 dividual heart and life. I entreat you, therefore, to 
 present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy. acce])l- 
 
WHAT SHALL WE CALL THIS SYSTEM 349 
 
 able unto God, which is your reasonable service ; and 
 may you not be any longer conformed after the cus- 
 toms and habits of this world, but may you be trans- 
 formed, carried over into a new order of thinking, by 
 the renewing of your minds so that you shall dem- 
 onstrate in your lives what is that good and acceptable 
 and perfect will of God, both now and evermore. 
 (Adapted from Rom. 12:1. 2.) 
 
CHAPTER Xll. 
 Habits. 
 
 Habit is any course of action that we come b\ prac- 
 tice to do without any immediate planning or pur- 
 posing. When the whole community or body of so- 
 ciety follow any set order of action, or individual habit 
 becomes universal, this action is called custom. 
 
 Habits sometimes come from hereditary tendencies. 
 A child may inherit a condition of the.nervotis sys- 
 tem from its parents that will clamor for some stimu- 
 lant or narcotic just as .soon as the child gets the 
 smell or taste of the article. We have known of a 
 child, still creeping upon the floor, having such a taste 
 for tobacco that it would nurse a plug of the old- 
 fashioned kind, as some other children would nurse 
 their thumb. We have known of other children who 
 would cry for liquor just as soon as they got the first 
 smell of it, and drink it down with a marvelous relish. 
 This perverted appetite came as naturally to the child 
 as the taste for food ; because the taste had come to 
 possess the nervous system of the parent just as much 
 as the appetite for food, and sometimes even more 
 fully. Any prevailing passion, or artistic taste, or any 
 tendency, cither natural or acquired, that takes pos- 
 session of the parent or parents is very likely to find 
 full expression in the offspring. 
 
 We have known a few cases where the father was 
 
HABITS 351 
 
 addicted to drink and the mother had a perfect horror 
 and loathing for the stuff that was debasing her hus- 
 band, and the mother's mental state prevailed, and 
 some of the children came into the world with a hatred 
 for liquor in every form. The very smell of it was 
 abhorrent, and the thoughts of it afterward were re- 
 pulsive. 
 
 Habits of appetite and artistic taste often skip over 
 to the second generation. They may miss in the first 
 offspring without any manifestation, and appear in 
 all their fullness, in the grandchild. 
 
 All bad habits, thus called hereditary, might have 
 been minimized, counteracted or trained out of the in- 
 dividual, or in other words, the individual might have 
 been trained, away from the tendency to indulge in 
 these things by keeping the environment such that he 
 would not learn by experience the evil bent of his 
 own nature till such time as moral character was 
 strong enough to resist all temptations to the evil 
 course. Thus while heredity plays an important part 
 in the development of character, it is by no nueans the 
 all powerful element. For training has accomplished 
 the development of self control in thousands who 
 would have otherwise gone down to degradation and 
 ruin. 
 
 Habits are more largely dependent on example than 
 on heredity. If the child is so handled, cuil)cd and 
 trained, that he develops a loving respect and confi- 
 dence for and in the parent, that parent's example will 
 do more to shape his future course thati all the words 
 that ever could be spoken. The child will pattern after 
 the character that he reveres. The tones of voice and 
 
352 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 gestures, the way the parent walks and all his general 
 manners will find expression in the son. 
 
 If the parents are self controlled at the table and 
 diligent in the labors of life and regular in their habits 
 of recreation and rest, the child will be molded into the 
 same ways of doing, and will be almost as sure to fol- 
 low in the right ways, in these respects, as one blade 
 of grass is to grow up like another. 
 
 If the father is tricky in his dealings, always putting 
 up a deception in every package of produce he carries 
 to market and always bragging about beating some 
 one in trade; if he shuns labor as much as possible 
 and goes to the races and bets on all sorts of games, 
 the young man will almost surely walk in his crooked 
 ways. 
 
 If the mother is always nice and lovely to all the 
 neighbors when they come to see her, but wishes she 
 might never see them again when their backs are 
 turned, the daughter will doubtless improve on her 
 mother's social customs by becoming more deceitful 
 and heartless than she ever was. If the parents take 
 the down hill road, they will give a momentum to 
 the progress of their dependents in that same road. 
 The restraints of respectable society, or of the church 
 or Sabbath school, may p^ossibly exercise an influence 
 that will, in a measure, counteract the vile hoine in- 
 fluences; l)ut it will be a most marvelous thing if 
 some of the home habits do not stick to the young 
 men and women of the family like the leprosy. 
 
 There is nothing like example, nothing like the con- 
 tinuous object lessons in the home kindergarten to 
 shape the habits of life; and the aggregate of a man's 
 habits are what compose his life. Life is made of 
 
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 experiences and many of life's individual experiences 
 are fixed habits. 
 
 We often speak of mental and physical habits, but 
 there is no clear line of distinction between the two; 
 for every physical habit exists first in thought. It is 
 thought which forms the physical course of conduct. 
 x\nd every mental habit has its index in the physical 
 part of the man, and there makes a permanent im- 
 pression which it may take months to remove after 
 the mental habit has been changed. 
 
 Here is a young man who makes up his mind to 
 learn to use tobacco. He has no taste for it, but he 
 wants to be like some other young men, or like father. 
 So he resolutely sets about conquering his dislike 
 for the nauseous weed. After a few weeks he suc- 
 ceeds, and for years he uses the narcotic, noticing all 
 the time a growing tendency on the part of the habit. 
 At the age of forty or forty-fi\e years he becomes 
 convinced that tobacco is injuring him. and he sets 
 about getting rid of it. But he finds more resolution 
 needed now in cutting it off than he did in grafting 
 it into his system. He may succeed in leaving out the 
 tobacco itself, but he finds himself chewing toothpicks 
 and sticks and gum. His mouth is lonesome without 
 something to do. Frequently he finds himself feeling 
 for his tobacco box, especially if he is laboring under 
 a little excitement. The after effects of this iiabit 
 may stay by a man for many months. 
 
 In this article we arc speaking only of \()luntary 
 habits and make no reference to those habits of the 
 involuntary system like yawning, gaping, etc., or like 
 shaking palsy, a weakened condition of the involun- 
 
354 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALrTH 
 
 tary nervous system, where the action is entirely in- 
 dependent of the will. 
 
 All voluntary habits begin in the thought and will 
 and may perpetuate themselves in the man's nervous 
 and physical systems for a life time without any fur- 
 ther effort on the part of the mind after the hal^it is 
 once formed. 
 
 The habit becomes the governor of the man and 
 his will, and all his powers of being obey its behests. 
 This is where the wrong of the whole habit business 
 is fully manifest. 
 
 There is only one habit, outside of those on which 
 life is immediately dependent, wdiich is safe, and that 
 is the great habit of self control. Under this is a host 
 of lesser habits which relate to every marked tendency 
 and every propensity of the entire man. 
 
 Self control once acquired converts a weakling into 
 a mighty man, "He that ruleth his spirit is better 
 than he that taketh a city." 
 
 It is not acquired in a day, nor a month, nor a year. 
 It requires the efforts of faithful parents working 
 together diligently for years to approximate closely 
 to the desired result in their offspring. And the most 
 important lesson of all, the youth must be made to 
 know that -it is on his own voluntary efforts along this 
 line that his future success depends. Example and 
 precept and more example; and outside precept again 
 wrought into the parental example and kept before 
 the child mind as objects worthy of imitation ; all this 
 and sometimes mingled with it restraints and cha^tise- 
 ments of a painful kind must be brought to bear in 
 order to establish in the being this one mighty power 
 
HABITS 355 
 
 of character. Self Control. Every man is strong just 
 in proportion as he is master of himself. 
 
 The innate tendencies must be curbed and controlled 
 or man becomes brutal. Oliver Wendell Holmes is 
 credited with saying that "Every man is an omnibus 
 in which all his ancestors ride." 
 
 Some of those ancestors have bequeathed to us 
 tendencies to some very undesirable traits of char- 
 acter; others have passed on to their posterity some 
 noble longings and aspirations. It is for us to fall 
 in line with right methods and be trained in the home 
 life in lessons of self denial, fortitude and patience, 
 which are the foundations of all self control. Ex- 
 ample and precept for the daily life, and chastisements 
 unaccompanied with wrath, for the stubborn moods 
 are the only true methods. "A child left to himself 
 bringeth his mother to shame." 
 
 And there must be times for personal reflection 
 from childhood up. The meditation or ''middle think- 
 ing," the thinking that comes in between the tasks 
 and trials of life and the more severe lessons, must 
 not be dispensed with. It will give opportunity for the 
 nobler aspirations to assert themselves. The better 
 longing must have careful cultivation, and the quiet 
 hour of reading in God's Word, studying His works in 
 Nature, and pouring out the soul before Him, will 
 supply the needs of the spiritual nature. Without this 
 quiet daily hour of training the soul will know little 
 or nothing of that spiritual fellowship which is so 
 absolutely essential to a perfect slate of peace and 
 repose. This daily resting place will become the oasis 
 on life's desert to which we may resort for rcfresliing 
 draughts of the water of life and the quieting peace 
 
356 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 of divine comfort which makes resignation to the Di- 
 vine will a pleasure. 
 
 This lesson must have been already partly learned 
 in the yielding to parental authority, otherwise it will 
 be a difficult lesson to learn in later life. The child 
 who never learned to yield to the parent will find it 
 almost an impossible task to yield to the Divine will 
 and law in later life. It will require many disappoint- 
 ments and heart-breaking failures to cure him of 
 the life-long habit of having his own way. 
 
 The Apostle John defines Sin as "the transgression 
 of the Law" of God. I Jno. 3 :4. God's law expresses 
 His way. When man transgresses, — that is, walks 
 right over and treads under foot, the laws of God, — he 
 is simply having his own way. So looking at the 
 siitner we may truly say, "Sinning is just having one's 
 own way," nothing more. "It is a terrible thing for a 
 man to have his own way," and sooner or later every 
 man must find it out. Then how will he regret that 
 father and mother did not train him, and ]irunc him, 
 and correct and regulate him in the plastic years of 
 childhood. No man was every sorry for the restraints 
 of true Christian discipline. One in after years may 
 remember with hatred those brutal punishments that 
 were inflicted under the movings of an ugly wrath, 
 but no man can look back with regrets to that faithful 
 training that helped to make a true man of him. 
 
 Proper training in the home prepares a man to go 
 out into the world to become a leader among men. 
 The man who controls himself will be able to control 
 others. He will ha\e a wholesome restraining influ- 
 ence on the corrupt elements in society and if there 
 are a few such thcv will be able to control the civic 
 
HABITS 357 
 
 aft'airs of ilic conmiunily and make that community 
 a decent place in which to live. 
 
 We come now to speak of some secret habits, which 
 are almost sure to work ruin if indulged in childhood 
 years. They have their oiigin in the over-development 
 of the sexual propensities and are probably stronger 
 generally than most other animal instincts. They be- 
 come established in the little one, often before thev are 
 suspected, because of the intuitive tendency to secresy. 
 The immediate cause of the awakening of those sen- 
 sations which accompany sexual manipulations, and 
 which form the incentive to repeat the action 
 which produced the sensations, is frequently, unclean- 
 liness which produces irritations which lead the child 
 to try to relieve the irritation, and the discovery is 
 made. Or some unprincipled nurse excites these parts 
 to quiet the child; or the child falls into company witl; 
 some older child that has already become contaminated 
 with this secret vice and seems infatuated to impart 
 the evil knowledge to others. Sometimes the com- 
 munity has in it grown up men who delight to teach 
 pollution to the little ones. 
 
 The children must be guarded with jealous care. 
 No other period of life has in it so many possibilities 
 for good or evil as the first seven years. Keep the 
 child pure during this time and teach the lessons of 
 self control, fortitude, patience, and confidence in his 
 parents, and in the Creator, and he will be compara- 
 tively safe. One rightly trained at this age is a com- 
 plete little man or woman. ( )f course they still need 
 guarding but the most critical period has been passed. 
 Cleanliness, separation from evil companionshi]). l)eing 
 cared for only by those who are pure, these ar*' im- 
 
358 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 portant matters, but the most important of all is con- 
 fidence and loving trust in the parents. 
 
 The mother who can keep the confidence of her chil- 
 dren so that they come to her with all their secrets, 
 will have little to worry about in this respect. The 
 child who confides all to mother has everything com- 
 paratively in his favor in this commencement of the 
 conflict with evil, for he has a true mother who will 
 guide him or her carefully through the shoals and 
 quicksands. What a power the wise, true mother can 
 exert, at this period, eternity only will fully reveal. 
 
 Fathers and mothers, don't lose that intimate asso- 
 ciation with your children which lets you into all the 
 secrets of their lives. Then if you are true, your chil- 
 dren will be safe, for you will know how to guide 
 them. Encourage your little ones to trust you and 
 then prove worthy of the trust they place in you 
 
 The best and only true confessional is the faithful 
 parent's knee, especially the mother's. Here the little 
 one can pour out its soul, and receive comfort and 
 strength to meet trials. This is a fortress to which 
 the little one can flee and be safe. As long as you, 
 parents, can have the full confidence of your children 
 they are safe. And let this intimate relationship be 
 kept up as the years advance. Then how that family 
 will cling to that fireside. And what a blessed condi- 
 tion of affairs will prevail all along life's journey. Such 
 fathers and mothers never "outlive their usefulness," 
 and such children never quarrel over a division of the 
 old estate. 
 
 Childhood, and life-long habits of purity can be se- 
 cured only by this loving trust in true parents. 
 
 Parents will have to be as true to the principles 
 
HABITS 359 
 
 they hold up for their children as they require them to 
 be. This will often lead the parents to confessing 
 their weaknesses and wrongs to the little ones when 
 some circumstance, at an unguarded moment, has 
 brought forth the harsh impatient word. 
 
 The conduct of father and mother toward the neigh- 
 bors will be scrutinized most keenly. Deviations from 
 strict matters of principle must be acknowledged be- 
 fore the children and put away. This is the only way 
 the breaches in the wall of household defence can be 
 repaired. 
 
 The confidence of one little fellow in his mother is 
 most refreshing. He was playing with the neighbor- 
 hood children when two or three of them began re- 
 marking about their friends and parents telling lies. 
 This little one straightened up and with dignified 
 positiveness declared, "When my mother says a thing 
 is so, it is so, if it ain't so." It is not difficult for true 
 parents to keep the confidence of their family; but 
 those who think more of being in the whirl of fashion 
 and in the swim of social excitement will not have time 
 nor patience to guard their little ones from the snares 
 of evil. 
 
 As life advances the youth will need to be guarded 
 agairst the corrupt literature that is now flooding the 
 world in the form of sentimental, and sometimes we 
 may say, licentious novels. 
 
 As "pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idle- 
 ness" increases in our land there will be even more 
 pitfalls in the licentious surroundings of the youth 
 than we now see. Those who have been guarded 
 safest will still be in danger. And those who have 
 fallen intr) the snare will need help tn get out. Keep 
 
360 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 the children and youth and your own selves from tak- 
 ing object lessons in any form of crime. The modern 
 theater is full of these object lessons, and needs puri- 
 fying as much as anything in society. 
 
 Habits of licentiousness are easily learned from some 
 of these object lessons, unless the soul is so well forti- 
 fied that it has no taste for such things. 
 
 Almost every man is a bundle of habits, and these 
 habits keep him under control. Very few men could 
 go free in their own strength if they would. Habits 
 bind men with fetters stronger than brass. Manhood 
 with all its possibilities is so often chained to the clods 
 of corruption. Most of the power of the iiunian race 
 is bound to corruption itself with the chains of appe- 
 tite and lust and there is a yawning abyss of utter des- 
 pair awaiting those who enter the unlawful ways of 
 pleasure-seeking. 
 
 Just for one moment of gratification the unrestrained 
 man forfeits peace, and self respect, and honor; stifles 
 the voice of conscience, and invites disease and cor- 
 ruption to dwell in his very bones and pollute his in- 
 most soul. He sows the seeds of death and disgrace 
 all because he did not have enough wholesome training 
 to make a well-balanced man of him. His habits have 
 become tigers which lurk for him at eveiy turn and 
 devour him while he still lives and breathes. He who 
 desires peace of mind and rest of body, more than folly, 
 will break away from this awful ihralldom of evil hab- 
 its. Young man, young woman, disappoint the mon- 
 ster that is beguiling you before he disappoints you 
 again. Seek counsel of some friend who lias proved 
 true to you. Confide in that friend. Read the lives 
 (jf those who have been this way before you, and with- 
 
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 stood the trials that have overthrown you. There is 
 help in the Man of Nazareth for you as there was for 
 them. There is life in conquering, there is death in 
 yielding'. True pleasures leave no sting in the flesh ; 
 false pleasures infect the body and soul with a blood 
 poison for which there is no natural remedy. Creative 
 power only can restore where death-dealing habit has 
 prevailed. Call to your aid in sincerity, the Creator 
 of heaven and earth ; get in touch with Him. There 
 is spiritual fellowship that is Divine and pleasures that 
 do not disappoint. 
 
 Let every one of our readers enter upon the pleas- 
 urable task of inviting into the life the self-control 
 family of habits. It will work wonders for you; and 
 through contact with others the influence of your ef- 
 forts may extend until thousands may be set free and 
 become strong and capable of helping fully to develop 
 men into a vital appreciation of the life that now is 
 and of also that which is to come. 
 
 There is a long list of what are usually considered 
 to be very little trivial habits. We might name some 
 of them, as the candy habit, the ice cream habit, the 
 soda water habit, the gum chewing habit, the habit 
 of mincirig between meals and lying abed late in the 
 morning. Now it may seem like a trifling matter to 
 call attention to these things, none of which may ap- 
 pear to us as outbreaking sin. Rut they are all use- 
 less, wasteful, expensive and enslaving. All of them 
 are physically injurious as now practiced in our 
 country. Every young man and woman would be 
 better off today if these habits had never been known. 
 There is no true character building in any of them, 
 hence they are not to be commended. 
 
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362 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 To yield to the gratification of a taste or desire that 
 ministers no good to soul or body can fall little short 
 of being sinful. To foster in ourselves the demand 
 for a useless indulgence cannot but degrade us in our 
 own estimation. An occasional use of clean candy 
 or ice cream at home or to chew gum for a few min- 
 utes to clean the teeth, under some circumstances 
 cannot be wiseh^ condemned at the present stage of 
 social attainments, but to get the habit for these 
 things fixed so that there is clamoring for them and 
 a wasteful use of means in procuring the demanded 
 gratification is a specie of slavery as much to be 
 shunned as any other. The constant, habitual per- 
 sistence in these habits can only result in injur}- 
 l)oth physical and moral. 
 
 The candy habit is now being used to the advantage 
 of the liquor inteersts by the manufacture of brandy 
 and wine drops. It is bad enough to find intoxicating 
 drinks behind the saloon bar.. It is horribly offensive 
 to find it mingled with sweetmeats prepared to be 
 sold to innocent children. 
 
 It is unwise to indulge a habit for even good things 
 until it becomes enslaving. The Creator has so con- 
 stituted man that when he uses natural foods they 
 do not produce cravings that other good foods will 
 not satisfy. But if we take unnatural foods, appetites 
 arc formed which it is hard to break. And here is the 
 test for every indulgence, whenever the appetite i)e- 
 gins to clamor for gratification it is time to slow up. 
 When natural law is obeyed the appetite will not get 
 the mastery of the man. It is no more noble to be 
 controlled by a candy appetite than to be held in 
 bondage l)y a liquor appetite. Of course, the open 
 
HABITS 363 
 
 results of the latter are very much worse but the 
 element of slavery remains. The same is true of the 
 tea and coffee habits and many other "little" ( ?) 
 habits. Indulgence in ■"litilc" habits prepares the 
 way for greater indulgences. All the possibilities of 
 the oak are pent u]:) in the acorn and its habits of 
 growth. So habit is habit, and habit is servitude. 
 And the servant and slave is a weakling" and not a 
 master. There is no element of nobility and refine- 
 ment inherent in a useless habit even though other- 
 wise noble people indulge it. Society cannot ennoble 
 a useless habit, but a useless habit can degrade noble 
 society. If noble men only sensed this truth, won- 
 derful transformations would take place in our social 
 customs and personal habits. 
 
 The wicked thing back of the promoting of places 
 of useless eating and drinking and amusement, 15 the 
 taking advantage of the weakness of modern society, 
 just as the saloon keeper does. There is a tendency 
 among men to i\o certain wrong, useless things, and 
 the place and opportunity is provided so that some 
 one can profit by the degradation of society — get the 
 other man's money. Jtist because he is too weak to 
 resist the temptation the money seeker sets before 
 him. 
 
 We know of scores of men who in youth had an 
 ambition to accomplish some purpose in life. By self 
 denial and self control they steered clear of every 
 useless indulgence, saving time and means for only 
 the actual necessities of life, and sometimes the neces- 
 sities were scarce. Many of these men accomplished 
 their aim and today stand in responsible i)Iacos in 
 societv and goxernnu'ut. The one \\h<i wnuld win 
 
364 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 success in the race of life in any line of employment 
 cannot expect success from favorable outward cir- 
 cumstances. Success comes from within. 
 
 Many pampered ones in our time turn up their 
 noses at the suggestion of a fellowship with the life 
 of deprivation that Abraham Lincoln lived. They 
 will find at last that their bubble of ambition may 
 burst by the generation of gas from the useless stufl' 
 that lack of self control permitted to come into their 
 lives. 
 
 The one who wants to have this life merge smoothly 
 into the life to come will be careful of the kind of 
 habits he brings into life here, for these habits, make 
 character and character is the thing that will be car- 
 ried over into the new life. There is no room for the 
 rubbish of self indulgence anywhere along the way. 
 The inexorable law is that the character must be 
 built out of the habits that are furnished. You would 
 not put weak or soft timber into the foundations of 
 your house. Many men are thoughtlessly putting 
 corrupt habits into their characters and others are in- 
 dulging the growth of weak habits that will lead them 
 into corrupt ways later on. 
 
 If you were to be tried in court which would you 
 choose for your judge and jury, other qualities being 
 e(|ual, a class of men who were mimching candy and 
 peanuts, and a judge with a bottle in his pocket from 
 which he frequently regaled himself; or men who 
 were self controlled in these respects? T need not 
 await your answer. The moral is; if you wish to be 
 a good judge of all the afi'airs of life keep free from 
 the weakness of all useless indulgence of whatever 
 nature-. If vou want vour children to become men 
 
HABITS .^65 
 
 and women who will be pillars in the society of life, 
 just hold a steady hand. Deny them nothing that 
 is necessary. Encourage moderation in all good 
 things ; prevent such a use of the weak, unnecessary 
 things as will lead to weak, wasteful habits, and pro- 
 hibit absolutely all those things which are harmful. 
 
 The most important habit to be formed is the habit 
 of controlling the thoughts. This once accomplished, 
 the man can be master of any evil suggestion that 
 may arise in his mind. How may this power be ac- 
 quired? The steady, even, quiet spirit of the niother 
 or nurse is the commencement of this quality of 'being 
 in the child. Keep the child away from excitement 
 and exciting pleasures where rapid changes in moods 
 is stimulated. Of course the child must have good 
 food and care physically, to keep it in health. As 
 soon as he shows a preference for an\- particular line 
 of toys or baby employment let him not l)e changed 
 too frequently from one thing to another. .\ set of 
 building blocks is in every way superior to a rocking 
 horse. And a little later the picture puzzle or the 
 map puzzle ; any constructive effort will- tend to con- 
 tinuous thought along any subject that is before the 
 mind. Kindergarten methods are \ery good jf the 
 (larmatizing is left out. Children do not need fanci- 
 ful, imaginative development to establish mental con- 
 trol of the thoughts. 
 
 Cultivate the will, dnn't crush it. Do all \ou can 
 to have the child make up his mind for himself. Give 
 him frequent opportunity for choice between two arti- 
 cles which he may desire and which will be of use 
 to him; between two courses of action; or between 
 two or more kinds of ])roper amusements, and then 
 
366 ESSENTIALS TU LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 (|uicll\- hold him to his choice. If he makes a wroiigr 
 choice reason him out of it. if possible. If he is "a 
 chip off the old block," and will have his way, lei 
 him snft"er a little of the consequences, but stand by 
 ready to kindly help him out when the i)inch comes. 
 There Avill be little of this stubborn resistance to 
 deal wiili if the parent has the full contklence of the 
 child. 
 
 Sometimes in a crisis a little severe and moderately 
 painful punishment may become necessary to save 
 the child from his own ways, but it must be admin- 
 istered tenderly and lovingly, not in wrath. The child 
 must know that this work of disciplining' is not a 
 pleasure to the parent ; nor a manifestation of lack 
 of control. 
 
 When the days for reading of stories, for education, 
 and amusement has arrived there is more danger for 
 the habit of metnal self control than at any previous 
 period. Choose for the family a series of biographies 
 or travels, well and orderly written. Encourage the 
 study of geography and mathematics, and any useful 
 topic that requires systematic, thinking. Anything" 
 and everything that is truly scientific. All the busi- 
 ness affairs of the family should be run in an orderly 
 manner. The garden and farm, or, if nothing more, 
 the dooryard, should be systematically laid out and 
 cared for and every child should have a share in the 
 work. Keep the mind and hands busy with a steady 
 line of employment until a change is necessary for 
 rest. 
 
 The greatest danger for the idle youths of our time 
 is the fictitious literature in which the imagination is 
 led on a wild chase into impossible, forbidden or at 
 
HABITS 367 
 
 least improbable scenes. Tlie riotous, exciting method 
 employed by the novelist is just Avhat the most of 
 minds will take to, just from hereditary tendency. 
 Following through the harrowing, imaginary circum- 
 stances; or the exhilerating flights of fancy will soon 
 break down the power to do systematic thinking. The 
 novel writer gives free rein to the thoughts, feeling 
 and emotions; and he who follows with him forms 
 this same habit, which soon breaks down and obliter- 
 ates all the lessons of control ever taught, if the in- 
 dulgence is continued. 
 
 Such reading leads to dreamy re\"cries which often 
 result in criminal habits. 
 
 Publishing all the details of crime, and all the de- 
 tails of criminal procedure, in the courts, is a most 
 reprehensible thing. Man}^ of the criminally inclined 
 have got their first suggestions of lunv to commit 
 crime by this kind of reading. 
 
 Many a case of licentious gratification has followed 
 the sensuous excitement of reading some novel or 
 witnessing some theater performance, or reading the 
 particulars of some scandalous deed. They who would 
 be self controlled must avoid mental excesses as they 
 would excesses in the use of stimulants and narcotics. 
 
 Those who fall into the habit of reading chafTy, 
 frivolous, exciting literature soon lose all taste for 
 study and solid reading. The Bible, that book which 
 reveals the life to come and points out the moral 
 preparation for it becomes exceedingly distasteful to 
 the novel reader. This education of the mind into a 
 state of loose sensuousness, may be charged almost 
 Avholly to the account of modern fiction. 
 
 Life, here and hereafter, depends entirely on habits 
 
368 KSSENTlAIvS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 of self control. Every man who would accomplish 
 anything worth doing in this life must be schooled 
 faithfully and patiently into these habits. How much 
 more then, are they necessary in view of the possi- 
 bilities of the life to come. 
 
 We have not in this chapter spoken much concern- 
 ing those grosser forms of habit like the use of to- 
 bacco, liquor and opium. 
 
 We have said all that we thought necessary under 
 "Drugs, Stimulants and Narcotics." If the principles 
 of control set forth in this present chapter prevailed, 
 all forms ,of self indulgence would gradually cease 
 from among men, and the Kingdom of Heaven would 
 be brought very near even now. 
 
 In dealing with the evils of social life and the un- 
 restraints manifest in our fellowmen, epithets only 
 harden; pleadings are largely in vain; legal restric- 
 tions are easily evaded; and the after lessons of suf- 
 fering are only of temporar}^ avail. A patient, reason- 
 able, faithful appeal, backed by a good example, and 
 such a course of sacrificing, disinterested kindness as 
 will prove our motives wholly unselfish, are the only 
 things with the added grace of God, that will win 
 men back from ways of weakness and waywardness. 
 Such a course on the part of faithful workers reveals 
 the incarnate grace of God, — the grace of God dwell- 
 ing in flesh,- — the only resistless plea for a better life 
 that can be offered to men who do not know how to 
 appreciate life well enough to care for it sensibly and 
 \\isely as they f|uitc generally do for all the things 
 of lesser im|)ortancc. 
 
 Life, life, LIFE is the important thing; not selfish, 
 sensuous L^ratificatinn. which vet alwavs proves dis- 
 
HABITS 369 
 
 appointing. Why exchange life for indulgence? Why 
 squander it for gratification. Why sell it for a glit- 
 tering bubble that bursts ere it is fairly grasped and 
 leaves only stained hands, soiled garments, and a dis- 
 appointed, aching heart. 
 
 Life is ours now to have, to appreciate, to hold, to 
 enlarge and beautify, to strengthen and ennoble so 
 that at last the Master of the Universe may say to 
 us, "come up higher." 
 
CHAPTER XIIL 
 Life and Labor. 
 
 More About the Law of Exercise. 
 
 We are endeavoring" to deal in principle with life 
 in all its phases and all its relations of dependency. 
 
 Much of earth's surface forbids the sustenance of 
 life without labor. Large areas demand the most 
 strenuous efforts on man's part to wring even the 
 bare necessities of life from the stubljorn circum- 
 stances. 
 
 In such localities, indifference to labor means either 
 physical suft'ering or dependence on others who are 
 struggling against similar conditions. 
 
 The question of feeding the lazy and indolent mem- 
 bers of the human family is fully settled by a gospel 
 commandment as given by Paul. He said, "For even 
 when we were with you, this we commanded you. if 
 any man would not work neither should he eat." II 
 Thes. 3:10. This was good gospel nineteen hundred 
 years ago and it is just as good today. There are 
 enough cases of suffering from sickness and accident 
 to demand the attention of our philanthropic neigh- 
 bors and friends without our letting our energies waste 
 and we attempt to live at the expense of other people's 
 energies. Such a life of indolence and indifference to 
 the rights and obligations of others is on a level with 
 stealing and robbery. 
 
r.IFE AND LABOR 371 
 
 There is a tendency everywhere, growing out of 
 innate laziness, to live by one's wits, as it is said, at 
 the expense of other people's production. Every able- 
 bodied man should be a producer of something valu- 
 able and tiseful to the race, otherwise he forfeits his 
 rights to existence. Take those lands where the 
 prodigality oi nature renders physical labor almost 
 unnecessary, the condition of civilization and morals is 
 an object lesson which ought to put to shame any half- 
 way self-respecting shirk, who may be found any- 
 where in ci\ilization. 
 
 The man who is unacquainted with good, steady, 
 faithful labor does not know the value and meaning of 
 rest. There can be no peace and comfort to the man 
 who is always conniving and planning how to serve 
 himself out of the earnings of another. The civilized 
 world is afflicted with a host of this class of men. 
 They have no respect for the rights of others to rest. 
 We have seen young women trained by some loving 
 mother to sit and look on, or prim]i and fuss and 
 giggle and entertain some senseless companion, while 
 mother and father toiled all the day to furnish the 
 food for the young spendthrifts. We have seen young 
 men who could exert enough energy playing baseball 
 or football or tennis to have more than ])roduced a 
 good li\ing for themselves, while father sweat and 
 toiled in tin- field to help raise the necessary fund, to 
 pay off the mortgage on the old farm, so that his 
 promising young son would have more money to 
 squander on the race track, or at the club house, or 
 the saloon, when father and mother were out of the 
 way. 
 
 The fathers and mothers are to blame for this state 
 
372 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 of affairs. Those who do not have patient common 
 sense enough to put the yoke on the youth while he 
 is young, will find the youth, of whichever sex, to grow 
 up and act just like that steer that ne\cr was yoked 
 up and put to labor in his calf-hood days. "It is good 
 for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth," and 
 for woman too. For a child to have the privilege of 
 helping in the little duties of life just as fast as his 
 capabilities increase, is the best moral and mental 
 discipline that this world affords. To learn to help 
 father and mother in the aft'airs of life, develops man- 
 hood and womanhood, and fortitude, and prepares the 
 way for helpfulness in the cause of suffering humanity 
 in after life. The discipline and restraints of physical 
 training form the sinews of character. 
 
 The mother who waits on baby at his beck and call, 
 from the first time he bumps his head on the floor 
 because he cannot have his own way, until he is five 
 years of age, picking him up when he falls down and 
 coddling him every time he breaks forth in protest 
 against the restraints of circumstances, will find her- 
 self not many years afterward, in the chains of a 
 slavery to the restraints of her offspring, more galling 
 than any African slavery ever was. 
 
 Some one, not many years ago, pictured the fondled 
 baby crying for the moon. Underneath was the legend, 
 "He won't be happy till he gets it." Well, he wouldn't 
 be happy then. Give humanity its full desire all the 
 way along life's young journey, and it grows more 
 exacting and dissatisfied as the journey progresses. 
 
 The discipline of honest employment means life and 
 peace in later years. To train the young mind so that 
 it can have and enjoy only what it fleserves, just as 
 
LIFE AND LABOR 373 
 
 fust as the vears ui nndcrstaiulini>- bcii'in to dawn, will 
 stimulate activity along useful lines and make the 
 thild an amateur producer of something valuable to 
 I he race. There is millions of man-power going at 
 loose ends and wasting itself on criminal indulgence, 
 just because some mistaken, over-fond parent lacked 
 the ability to educate (draw out) the latent powers of 
 her offspring and connect them with some line of use- 
 ful employment. 
 
 "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." 
 'I'hat saying only emphasizes the call for recreation 
 which none can enjoy except those who have been 
 well and wisely employed. All play and no work will 
 make Jack a useless, good for nothing, and possibly, 
 a criminal. 
 
 How One Kind-hearted Woman Failed. 
 
 She was refined, faithful, patient and long suiTering. 
 ."^he had a most gentle Christian bearing. I knew 
 lier w^ell. Her early years were spent in her father's 
 family, where the circumstances of life made it a 
 stern necessity for all the family to labor faithfully, 
 and almost constantly. As she approached woman- 
 hood she felt very keenly the lack of privileges that 
 had been denied her and she resolved that her chil- 
 dren, if she ever had any to rear, should not be sub- 
 jected to the hardships that she felt had fallen to her 
 lot. One thing that soured her against the circum- 
 stances of her own life, was the false ideals which 
 <;he gathered from a few stray novels which fell into 
 her hands. Those romantic pictures were so imlike 
 the stern realities of her existence and sn pleasing to 
 her fancy, that she resolved to save her childmi from 
 
374 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 licr (lc|)rivations and make their lot as nearly as pos- 
 sible like those fancy sketches which had so fully 
 ca])tivated her soul. 
 
 So, true to her resolution, she tried her new found 
 fancies on her first born, a cherubic little boy. Habit 
 of dealinj^- with first babe was continued when the 
 second one came, and the little girl w-as coddled and 
 cared for just as the boy had been. Not a single wish 
 or childish whim was overlooked. Not a toy wanted 
 but it was procured. Not a taste developed but it 
 was (juickly gratified. Not a desire of the eyes but 
 was satisfied as fully as possible. Not a privilege 
 sought but it was obtained, just as quickly as cir- 
 cumstances would permit. And mother, being brought 
 up to labor, never allowed either child to S(jil its hands 
 with any toil she could possibly perform. 
 
 Education in school, in music, in games, in swim- 
 ming, and all the fine acquirements in life, and at last 
 in college, w^ere provided just as fast as the years 
 would allow^ Nothing was forgotten. The}' were 
 kept in the whirl of excitement and rush from the 
 cradle to manhood and w^omanhood. No company was 
 denied them which was called respectable, and no 
 appetite permitted to go unsatisfied, and no amuse- 
 ment imenjoyed. 
 
 Now as the wealth of the family increased, the wa- 
 tering iilaces began to become the goals of existence 
 to the }-oung people. Mother could have servants to 
 attend to the affairs of the home, while she lavished 
 the wealth on making jolin and Jennie just as happy 
 as she knew how. 
 
 They must be gratified, satisfied, pleased and ad- 
 xanced in evervthinof their hearts desired. 
 
LIFE AND LABOR 375 
 
 At the ages of twenty-three and twenty-seven they 
 had been taught nearly everything but the useful em- 
 ployment of life. The young man knew less of his 
 father's business than he did of Chinese manners and 
 customs, and the young woman could not prepare a 
 meal of food, nor make a garment for her own or any 
 other's wear. A little fancy work was all the practical 
 work she knew. Mother's plan that her children 
 should not be obliged to soil their hantls with labor 
 had been realized up to date. 
 
 We will not dwell on the unamiable traits of self- 
 ishness and pride that had grown up like weeds in 
 a hot bed in those young hearts; nor of the stubborn, 
 set purpose, to have their own ways in all things. 
 Mother now began to realize that she had been train- 
 ing tigers instead of lambs, for she had two inexorables 
 now to deal with and serve as fully as she was able. 
 
 And now came the parting of the ways. Mother 
 was past 50. Her shoulders were somewhat stooped. 
 Her hands showed the effects of unremitting toil. Her 
 gait was a little stiff and awkward. Her face looked 
 care-worn and sad, for she began to know that her 
 fond dreams and her cherished expectations were not 
 to be realized in her children. Her slavish toil was 
 not appreciated \n- her "darlings." In the early days 
 she had prepared sweetmeats for them and eaten the 
 plain foods herself. She had toiled that they might 
 play and caper. .She had worn calicos, that they 
 might be dressed in the latest styles with the bc^t of 
 goods. 
 
 Now that easy circumstances made it possible for 
 lu-r to lay aside the self-denial for their sakes, she 
 finds that her societ\' and presence is not accei)table 
 
376 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 on their pleasure trips. Mother's looks and manners 
 betrayed her plebeian birth, and these polished young 
 people felt better when she was not along. 
 
 Mother now had to content herself with going alone 
 to the White Mountains, or the Seaside, while the 
 young folks took trips to Europe. 
 
 A few years pass. The father dies, the young man 
 and woman are married, the property divided, and 
 mother is advised to go and live with a second cousin, 
 who needs the small amount allowed to the mother 
 to help care for the two in a lonely, quiet little coun- 
 try town. The mother, now past sixty, and crippled 
 from the effects of her hard life of toil and cross-bear- 
 ing, sat and mourned over the neglect of those she had 
 so tenderly cared for. She was not wanted in the two 
 fashionable, aristocratic homes that had sprung out 
 of the breaking up of her own. She had so long 
 yielded to the behests of her children that when they 
 demanded a division of all the estate, and settled only 
 a pittance on her, she meekly yielded. We will not 
 follow the sorry tale further, except to say that when 
 mother died, the funeral was a very quiet affair, and 
 she was laid beside her husband in the family plot. 
 Their friends were informed that the "old woman" 
 was dead. "It was a blessing to her. for she had out- 
 lived her usefulness." The children in their families 
 said, "poor old granny is dead." This sad picture be- 
 ginning in foolish over-fondness and a false sense of 
 true kindness and ending in almost brutal neglect, is 
 true to life in thousands of cases, with only slight 
 variations. 
 
 In the face of this kind of folly it is refreshing to 
 know that thousands of cultured, refined people are 
 
rjFK AND LABOR 377 
 
 trainini^ their cliiklrcn to lives of usefulness. The 
 royal families of Europe that train their sons and 
 daughters into productive trades and occupations, are 
 holding their own with their subjects. Some one must 
 produce. All should, in some way, be compelled to 
 minister to the public welfare by caring for them- 
 selves, if able to do so, or ])e invited and compelled to 
 cease being consumers. He who will not produce 
 must not presume that he has tlie right to con- 
 sume the fruits of other men's labors. And he who 
 lails to inculcate this lesson into his offspring, must 
 expect to find the large items on the loss side of his 
 life account when the records are closed. 
 
 The unhappy mother to whose mismanagement we 
 have called attention, never enjoyed any rest or peace 
 either physical, mental or spiritual. Her children were 
 strangers to that sweet comfort and well-earned repose 
 that comes only to the unselfish workers. Tn their 
 declining years, imless a real genuine conversion shall 
 overtake them, they will suffer the same neglect, and 
 perhaps worse, from their offspring, than their self- 
 sacrificing niDiher received at their hands. There is 
 no true rest, nor peace, nor tjuietness, either now nur 
 at any time in the future, to those wdio know not the 
 restraints and discipline of useful employment, with- 
 out a radical change which shall bring them back over 
 the devious paths of early years to pick out the 
 stumbling blocks and help to straighten and grade the 
 way for those who shall come after them. The Law 
 of Exercise must be obeyed or jicace and rest take 
 their departure. Human sentiment may not tram])Ie 
 under foot any law of our being wilhoul paying (he 
 jjcnalty in full. And human folly is no nirire manifest 
 
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378 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 anywhere than in the efforts to extract pleasure and 
 satisfaction from a course of conduct that ignores and 
 tramples under foot the eternal laws of God in na- 
 ture. "There is no peace saith my God to the wicked. " 
 
CHAPTER XIV, 
 Transformations. 
 
 Some of the transformations we are now about to 
 speak of more fully, have been partially treated in a 
 former chapter; but we wish now to bring out and 
 show as fully as possible in a brief space the relation- 
 ships that exist between the transformations that are 
 constantly going on before our eyes ; which we 
 through being mentally preoccupied with the trifling 
 things of life, have largely overlooked. 
 
 By transformations we mean those changes by 
 which one substance is changed into the form and 
 quality of another substance, or by which substance 
 is changed into force or into thought or spiritual ex- 
 perience, or again, by which creative force or energy 
 is changed into material reality and by a second trans- 
 formation forward, into spiritual life, power and 
 energy. In this chapter we arc dealing with the deep 
 things of the Creator; the very fountains of all life 
 and existence. He who gets into right relations with 
 these thoughts will have no room for trifles. He 
 will have enough to keep him busy, and cheerful, and 
 hopeful, and confident. There will be little place in 
 his experience for those adverse mental conditions 
 which overthrow manho(id and womanhood in so many 
 thousands of cases. 
 
380 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Transformations of Energy into Material 
 Substance. 
 
 ll is Aery easy for us to grasp the idea of how a 
 substance such as wood or coal may be changed into 
 heat and light and motion. We have seen this done 
 so we are ready to say we understand it. But do we 
 imdersland? \\'e sinipl}' know these changes as mat- 
 ters of experience. If we had never seen such 
 ])hen()mena as this, it would be as hard for us to 
 believe that oil could be C(^n verted into light as it was 
 for the Siamese King to understand how water could 
 ])ecome so hard in Europe and America that men 
 and animals could walk on the surface of it. \\'hen 
 the first missionary had carefidly told him anuMig 
 other things of this transformation of water into ice 
 in his home country, the king said: "Be gone you mis- 
 sionary liar, be gone." Such a phenomenon was ut- 
 terly beyond his comprehension sini])!}' l)ccause he 
 had never seen such things transpire. 
 
 Ihit though we have seen the work going on before 
 our eyes for so many years yet it is very difficult 
 for us to grasp the idea of how sun energy, light and 
 licat. can be and is constantly being changed into the 
 solid substances with which we have to do all our 
 lives. 
 
 By the aid of the ethereal ajr, and tlie liquid water. 
 and a little of the substances of earth, the tenderest 
 herbage and the mighty forests gather tlieir substance 
 and solidit\' at the command of this glorious ])roducer 
 and organizer. How sunlight can be transformed into 
 grains and fruits and vegetables and trees we cannot 
 understand but we know it is done. 
 
 W'c are wont to think of creation a> something ac- 
 
TRANSFORMATIONS 381 
 
 complished and finished thousands of years aj^o, but 
 here daily, if we open our eyes, we see creative energy 
 working" wonders just as deep and profotind as those 
 which accompanied the production of the first seeds 
 by direct creative energy. To say which is the most 
 famiHar fact is very easy, but to say wliich is the 
 greatest is impossible as well as unreasonable; for 
 how can we say one work is greater than another 
 when both arc infinitely beyond our comi)rchension? 
 
 Creative power has not ceased w'orking. The 
 Creator is still creating as veritably as when "lie 
 spake and it was done, and commanded and it stood 
 fast." 
 
 He is still "upholding all things by the word of His 
 power." The energ}- the Creator put into the sini 
 is still constantly and untiringly working" transfor- 
 mations too wonderful for us, and these become 
 through His infinite plan the basis of all the trans- 
 formations with which mankind may become familiar. 
 
 We are constantly transforming" the solid sub- 
 stances of the vegetable kingdom into forces such as 
 heat, light, niotion and electricity. In the egg heat 
 develops life. This could never have been had not 
 the Creator first transformed life and force into these 
 solid sul)stances thus storing them up for the use of 
 His creatures to be liberated and used for perpetuating" 
 life and providing for the comfort of living sentient 
 beings. 
 
 Transformations from Vegetable to Animal Forms 
 of Substance. 
 
 We will s])eak I'mlv i>\ iii;inkind ami how they are 
 built ami nourished. Man partakes of the grains. 
 
382 ESSENTIALS TO IvIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 fruits and vegetables, cither at first-, or second-hand 
 through flesh eating, and the material form is changed 
 from vegetable to animal cell structure; from inert, 
 senseless matter to sensible, conscious, thoughtful mat- 
 ter. Thus by two transformations the Creator changes 
 the energy which He put into the sun, carrying it 
 forward into flesh and blood, into thought, feeling, 
 emotion and purpose ; into love and trust and confi- 
 dence and hope and all those elements which make 
 uj) a moral, spiritual character. Mighty transforma- 
 tion ! If humanity only knew what an infinite God 
 they have to deal with! Sun energy changed into 
 wheat ; wheat into flesh and blood and brain ; and 
 flesh and brain bringing forth spiritual purposes and 
 spiritual character. Such manifestations of creative 
 power are beyond our comprehension. We know they 
 are being made all about us constantly. The process 
 is open to inspection but the power is infinitely be- 
 yond us. 
 
 The spiritual power of God lirings forth the sun. 
 Sun energy produces material substances on earth. 
 Man through the Law of His Maker transforms these 
 material substances back into spiritual elements of 
 character. What a cycle of transformation ! My soul 
 bows in reverence under the contenii)Iation of such a 
 theme. 
 
 Other Elements Injected into this Process. 
 
 God has put His character into His word. He also 
 sets forth the character of His enemy in that word. 
 He shows too how men have succeeded and failed 
 here, in past ages, in their eflForts to transfer His char- 
 acter from The Word to their own lives. He sends to 
 
TRANSFORMATIONS 383 
 
 those who will welcome Him a divine Messenger, His 
 Holy Spirit, to aid men in their efforts to make this 
 last great transformation. 
 
 The human mind and will itself becomes also a 
 factor in this supreme effort at character building out 
 of the material so graciously furnished by the Creator. 
 The laws of nature and grace are oft'ered as a guide 
 to every man to direct him in the part he has to act 
 m this supreme work of transformation. 
 
 Here is where w^e come back again to the laws of 
 Hygiene. When man comes to the years of under- 
 standing he must learn that if he uses poor material 
 for building up his body he will be poorly prepared 
 to think right thoughts and come to right decisions. 
 Here is where the supreme responsibility falls back 
 upon man's shoulders. God will do His part to work 
 the transformation, but it is man's privilege to choose 
 to what end his energies shall be directed. He may 
 live to satisfy a gluttonous appetite and waste his 
 precious God-given vitality in an eft'ort to obtain 
 pleasure from mere animal gratification. He may 
 choose to live and eat like a beast and then gratify 
 his animal nature like a beast or sink even lower than 
 the beast. He may spend the energies of his body 
 in throwing out the poisons from his system which an 
 intemperate appetite has led him to swallow. He may 
 transfer all his bodily powers into fleshy gratification 
 and sowing to the flesh reap a harvest of corruption. 
 Or he may choose a somewhat nobler ideal and turn 
 all his life energies to the task of money getting. He 
 may lay up millions. Then he has transformed his 
 powers of being into a money account and this is 
 all there is left of the man when he departs hence. 
 
384 BSSEiISlTIAL,S TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 He may liave sought fame or honor, mere sounds that 
 die on the wind and leave not a whispering echo. 
 So all these God-given abilities that have come 
 through the Creator's transformations by His wisdom 
 and power may all pass into nothingness and the man 
 himself fade away and* the "place that knew him know 
 him no more forever." This is a life thrown away. 
 
 A Transformation that Will Endure. 
 
 On the other hand, the man may enter upon the 
 work of upright character building. That is the busi- 
 ness in which his Master is engaged. And in this busi- 
 ness he will have the cooperation of all heaven. He 
 ma\- turn his time and his other capital stock into 
 helping his fellowmen to develop characters in har- 
 mony with the Heavenly Father and the family in 
 Heaven. These characters become his treasure, the 
 things which lie values most, ^^'hen his work is done 
 the balance sheet in Heaven's ledger will show that 
 with the help of God this man made a full transfer 
 of all that was gi\en him into ( lod's Kingdom here 
 on earth and God in that glad resurrection morn, will 
 transfer him and his treasure to the Eden restored; 
 where those who hnvc loved and lived and labored 
 for others will have the privilege of their society 
 tluoughout endless ages. (See Rev. 21-22.) This last 
 transformation carries the products of all ( iod's trans- 
 formations I)ack to the source from whence the power 
 came, that set all these transformations into operation. 
 'I'his takes life back to its origin and makes existence 
 something more than merely living here. This doc- 
 trine of life and health puts man fully in right rela- 
 tion 1(1 all the things on which life fleiicnds and rounds 
 
TRANSFORMATIONS 385 
 
 out existence with a success that few of Adam's race 
 have attained. 
 
 Success. 
 
 To lia\ e lixed for self and squandered life on those 
 purposes for which the masses of mankind are laboring 
 is to miserably fail and perish and make void in our- 
 selves the purposes of creation. To have lived for 
 others who are compassed with the same infirmities as 
 ourselves is to secure all the pleasure there is in this 
 life, and gain the life to come. 
 
 This great Creator whom we ma}' love and honor 
 if we will "is working transformations in human hearts 
 and lives which are a source of surprise and astonish- 
 ment to his arch adversary," who is also engaged 
 in taking advantage of God's laws to work transforma- 
 tions of character, which will prepare men for destruc- 
 tion with him in the tires of the last great day. To 
 know God, to have spiritual rest and peace, to be a co- 
 worker with Him secures to us all there is of life now 
 and evermore. "For godliness is profitable in all things 
 having the promise of the life that now is, and of that 
 which is to come." I Tim. 4:8. 
 
 The "workers together with God" will share His 
 peace and comfort and rest, and lie will sa\e them 
 from a multitude of ills which afflict selfish gross hu- 
 manity. To be in tune witli the highest nobility in 
 the universe is the most glorious of all attainments. 
 To be in the direct channel of God's transformations 
 is to secure all that earth or hea\en can lia\e in store 
 for mankinrl. 
 
386 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Life Insurance. 
 
 Our Father is engaged in the life-producing and lile- 
 insuring business. The grandest life insurance is the 
 assurance that we are in harmony with Him and His 
 plans. All premiums are payable out of our mental 
 and spiritual trust funds thru loving obedience. 
 
 He gives us a part to act with Him in perpetuating 
 the life of the race. If in this matter we keep in har- 
 mony with His plans as expressed in Nature and in 
 His Word, instead of following" the clamorings of an 
 over-developed sensuality, we shall reap a harvest of 
 rest and peace instead of one more or less corrupted 
 with human folly and weakness. God's ways are best. 
 His methods in the transformations of life are wisest 
 and safest. To be in harmony with Him insures the 
 final results. If humanity were born in harmony with 
 His plans there would be far less need of discipline and 
 training. Restraints would not need to be so severe 
 and development would not be so much retarded by 
 Inmian imperfections. 
 
 We may learn lessons from the animal kingdom. 
 ^Tankind bring them under control and development 
 and improve some species very greatly. If they 
 would apply the same wisdom in the care of their 
 own kind, bringing themselves under control of God's 
 ways, there would be a vast improvement in human 
 society. 
 
 He who studies God's methods in producing trans- 
 formations among His creatures here will be better 
 ])repared to co-operate with the Creator in the working 
 out of a successful existence. We must not forget 
 that we have generations of heredity to deal with. It 
 will take the aid of Divine wisdom to brine: the stream 
 
TRANSFORMATIONS 387 
 
 back to the level of the fountain. The modern systems 
 of self-salvation will prove a final failure. They may 
 cause some new shoots to put forth promisingly, but 
 when the ripening of the fruitage comes the lack of 
 creative energy will be manifest and the harvest will 
 shrivel and turn back to dust. 
 
 Those who ignore the Creator will proht only very 
 partially from a study of Life and its possibilities. 
 There is an inspiration in knowing Him and studying 
 His methods ; which transports the man from one pin- 
 nacle of success to another, until this life is trans- 
 formed into the life eternal. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 m 
 
 Reforms and Extremes. 
 
 The (incstioii of refdnn in our lieallh lial)its is 
 largely a question of our personal relations to the 
 Creator and the laws of life He has ordained. With 
 the exception of those indulgences like the tobacco, 
 liquor, opium and other drug habits, or any other 
 practices which are a source of damage or injury to 
 other ])e()ple, our personal habits are really not mat- 
 ters for human control. Rom. 14:4, 10. 13. The things 
 we have mentioned are a scjurce of inconvenience 
 and injury to all who come in close contact with the 
 individuals addicted to them. Hence our right to 
 regulate, and, if possible, to prevent these practices. 
 But our table habits are a matter solely between us 
 and liod and so far as the other man is concerned are 
 a matter for persuasion, instead of command. Know- 
 ing the misery and sickness resulting froni failure to 
 ol)ser\e the law of rest, or the law of brealliing, or the 
 law of diet, we are impelled to seek their good by 
 showing them the right wa\'. Nothing less nor more 
 than a true spirit of philanthropy and Christian kind- 
 ness should actuate those who undertake to incline 
 the footsteps of their fellows into the paths of physical 
 peace. 
 
REFORMS AND EXTREMES 389 
 
 Reforms in Diet. 
 
 The (lucstions ul diet for all. and of dress for 
 women, are the two points that for years have 
 been calling" the loudest for changes. In reference tc) 
 the diet qtiestion, many faithful Christian i)eople have 
 been persuaded that the nesh of animals, fowls and 
 fishes is becoming so diseased that it is not safe to 
 continue their use as food. Thc\- have looked back 
 into the history of God's dealings with His creatures 
 and have seen that the original plan included only 
 grains, fruits and vegetables. (See Gen. 1 and 3.) They 
 have also become persuaded that it is the "purpose 
 of God to bring" His people back step by step to the 
 orginial bill of fare." Some, seeing these points so 
 clearly, ha^•e been forward to ])ronounce flesh eating 
 a sin for c\cry one. This is going a step too far, 
 because we at once make God the regulator of sin. 
 For did He not n"iake special and particular laws in 
 reference to the use of flesh foods." (Sef Lev 11 and 
 other places.) If we say too, that it is a sin to eat 
 fish we make Jesus of Nazareth a sinner. As I'aul 
 said things may be lawful but not expedient, and ii 
 might be wrong for one person to eat strawd^erries or 
 buckwheat cakes, because of personal injury received 
 simply becaiise the body is not prepared to take these 
 foods. The use of sweet jiotatoes makes the writer 
 very n"iiscrable. It therefore becomes wrong for him 
 t(-i use them. P)ecause I deem it a sin for me to use 
 an article of food does not give me liberty to pro- 
 nounce it a sin for auA'one else to use that article (if 
 
 food. 
 
 But for those who know ihe ])hysical wrong of 
 
 indulgence in lUsli eating, and know by experience 
 
390 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 the good that has come to them and their friends 
 through leaving out the grosser foods; for such to 
 continue the mere indulgence of the appetite for these 
 things, must, according to the Apostle James, be sin 
 as all self-indulgence is. "Therefore to him that 
 knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is 
 sin." James 4:17. 
 
 But there are cases where under the circumstances 
 the people cannot obtain anything better for food 
 than flesh, at least as a part of their diet. Some cases 
 of acid dyspepsia find lean meat the only thing they 
 can eat with comfort. And there is the poor Esquimo, 
 with his diet of seal and walrus blubber. Shall we 
 call such men sinners because they eat not according 
 to the dictates of our appetite and conscience? Rom. 
 14:13. If there is danger in their diet, and there is, 
 better that we set about helping them to train them- 
 selves into a better way of living; and it can be done. 
 It may take years, in a few cases. It is always safer 
 to make radical changes very carefully, especially ex- 
 treme changes in diet. Better be months growing out 
 of a bad habit and get out at last, than to jump out of 
 it before you are ready to leap far enough, so that you 
 will not l)ack-slide into it again. 
 
 It requires cool, careful intelligcncL- and moral prin- 
 ciple to change the physical habits and appetites that 
 have come to us through centuries of straying from 
 original paths. 
 
 We remember some of the companions of our child- 
 hood who were very wont to climb trees and get out 
 on the very tips of the limbs and dangle about like 
 monkeys. We have seen some of them get severe 
 falls that left lasting impressions on their physical as 
 
REFORMS AND EXTREMES 391 
 
 well as their mental make-up. It is painful to see men 
 capering and maneuvering on the very extremes of 
 a genuine reform, but there will be such in connection 
 with every reform, and they must be treated with 
 Christian courtesy. Of course they will be able to 
 tell the other fellow all the particulars, and lay down 
 the law for the management of his case. They are 
 not content with setting forth principles and giving 
 their fellowmen the liberty of choice. Their calling 
 is to lay down the law as they interpret it in all its 
 minutiae, and then condemn the other fellow for not 
 doing as they tell him. We have known them by 
 the score, and sad to say, those who know so much 
 about regulating the other fellow, are almost sure 
 eventually to run head-on ofif the track and be left 
 to flounder in the ditch. There is a speed limit on all 
 roads. The trouble is that the extremist will run 
 so fast that he will not see the open switches or the 
 danger signals, so he has a smashuj) which ruins him- 
 self and probably somebody else. The true reformers 
 will move on while the extremist returns to his old 
 ways because he could not persuade every body else 
 to do just as he does. They seldom hold out to the 
 end. To every person who is convinced of the better 
 way of living, we say move steadily on towards your 
 highest ideals. Connect with the people who give 
 evidence of having the "spirit of love and of power 
 and of a sound mind." Take one step at a time. He 
 who attempts to jump from his present footing to the 
 top of the ladder will probably miss the lighting place 
 and go tumbling far below where he now stands. We 
 can all afford to be patient toward all men as we 
 endeavor to lead all steadily onward and upward. 
 
392 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 To see the diseased animals driven to the slaughter 
 and think of scrofula, trichina (])ork worm) tape worm, 
 cases of poisoning from canned meats, tuberculosis, 
 dyspepsia and rheumatism, neuralgia, asthma, Bright's 
 disease, ulcers, boils, and eczemas, and a score of other 
 diseases, that result directly from tlesh eating, is 
 enough to make one very cautious about taking 
 chances on the eating of dead things. When the senses 
 and judgment are convinced it will not take long to 
 get the mind made up if one cares, and then appetite 
 will not clamor very long for indulgence wdien the 
 will positively says no. lUu no one should undertake 
 to lay aside flesh until he is convinced of the wdsdom 
 of doing so, and knows the importance of supplying 
 such foods as peas, beans, lentils, wheatmcal, oatmeal, 
 nuts, etc., to take the place of the flesh. He who lives 
 on fine flour bread and potatoes alone will fare about 
 as badly as the one who lives on meat and potatoes, 
 unless he gets diseased meats. The muscle and nerve 
 making element must be supplied. 
 
 Once the toxic elements in the flesh are dispensed 
 with, the wdiole nervous system will run smoother. 
 There will be fever ups and downs in one's feelings, 
 less impatience, less animal passion, more courage and 
 hope and good cheer. It will take a few weeks or 
 months to realize results. "The ways of wisdom are 
 ])leasantness and all her ])aths are peace." The self 
 denial needed in establishing habits of self control 
 will be more than fully rewarded by the rest and 
 comfort that are sure to follow. There is a physical 
 ])eace which is very conducive to spiritual growth. 
 We may not cat ourselves into a state of righteousness, 
 but we will ha\-c a poor time s])irit u;dl_\- if we trample 
 
REFORMS AND EXTREMES 393 
 
 under foot the natural law. The necessity for reform 
 will appeal only to those who sec somethings of the 
 ruin that has been wrought bv the evil habits which 
 have been bcc|ueathe(l to us as a heritage from our 
 forefathers. 
 
 Reforms in Dress. 
 
 Especially will it Ijc difficult to prrxluce a sufficient 
 revulsion aj^ainst the present mode of woman's dress, 
 to cause her in every case to rise superior to the influ- 
 ence brought to bear on everyone who steps aside 
 from the beaten ]xath. A\'omen in our touai have 
 so little to occu])y their minds that they have ample 
 time to slino- out reproachful, slighting- remarks and 
 just turn u]) llu'ir noses at everything' in dress which 
 is not strictly conventional, and this is what cuts; 
 the young woman to the very core and discourages her 
 from donning any form of apparel that will make her 
 "look odd." This method which the devotees of fash- 
 ion adopt is not reasonable, nor sensible, nor kind, nor 
 L'hristian. It is simply contemi)tiblc. 
 
 There arc some sensible, motherly women \\\u> will 
 stand by those who are struggling into the paths of 
 life; and here is the place for strong-minded young 
 husbands and }-oung lo\ers to step in and >lio\\ their 
 appreciation oi those true womanly virtues which de- 
 mand liberty and freedom from the galling yoke of 
 fashion. Let the clergy speak wlun once they are 
 convinced. The crucial point of reform is the waist 
 line. Here is where the battle rages. It takes C(<urage 
 to follow the conxietiMUs that come from a stud\- of 
 human anatom\. it does seem sometimes that all 
 our wr)men ought id be taken ti> the dissecting room 
 
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394 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 and there see the tu1)crculoiis lungs, the distorted 
 livers, the prolapsed stomachs, the diseased and dis- 
 placed kidneys, the ruined intestines, the horrible 
 tumors, the fallen wombs and enlarged ovaries. If 
 they could see the swollen, bloodshot, diseased look 
 on nearly every organ below the waist line, it might 
 have a somewhat sobering efifect. We are afraid all 
 the physicians would not care to give lessons along 
 this line, for here is the richest field for surgery, and 
 out of these miseries the great fortunes among physi- 
 cians have been gathered. In our country there is 
 scarcely one sound healthy woman in a thousand. 
 They are all more or less wretched and feeble. Most 
 of them can have no conception of how miserable 
 they are, for scarce one ever has known what it was 
 to feel well and natural for one hour since the bands 
 began to be applied. It is impossible to appreciate the 
 value of a thing, the loss of which we have forgotten. 
 How many lonesome firesides; how many childless 
 wretched women ; how many forsaken deserted homes; 
 how many a suicide has gone to God's acre ; and how 
 many other sorry things might be truly said, all be- 
 cause mothers have not had the courage to grow their 
 daughters up to womanhood without moulding their 
 waistline after the dictates of this modern moloch. 
 Mothers, how you would despise the work of an artist 
 who would put on canvas a life-sized picture of a 
 beautiful young woman with tlie abundant thighs 
 and hips and abdomen and chest, and insignificant 
 waist dimensions. Just look at that outline. Is it 
 not true to the reality? Verily. Who fashioned that 
 horrible form? Didn't you help do it? I don't wonder 
 that qnantities of dry goods are used to hide the 
 
REFORMS AND EXTREMES 395 
 
 monstrosity. Don't you admire the \'enus of Milo 
 and the graceful form of Queen Louise? Did you not 
 admire the cherub form of those little girls before 
 the wicked distortion began? Then in the name of 
 God and humanity why don't you let those forms 
 alone as near as possible as the Creator made them? 
 
 Of this wicked transformation w^e can truly say 
 ''x-\n enemy hath done this." The medical fraternity 
 might, if they would join forces, put an end to all 
 this wickedness, but scarce one of them ever raises 
 the warning. Here is the point of attack for the be- 
 ginning of an anti-tuberculosis campaign. Shall we 
 ever see the day when Christian women will cease 
 to serve the god of this world? It will take courage 
 to stand against the evil system, but some certainly 
 will do it, yes, must do it, or the human race in Amer- 
 ica is doomed to ruin. 
 
 Tobacco, Snuff, Liquor and Opium, and 
 Tea and Coffee. 
 
 L'nder "Drugs, Stimulants and Narcotics" we have 
 shown the physiological reason why these things 
 should be avoided. Reform along these lines has been 
 dragging its weary length along for many years. The 
 work has been so slow, chiefiy because of the table 
 habits of the people, and ])ecause the government has 
 sought revenue by licensing the sale of the grosser 
 things. Every indulgence in milder to.xics. creates 
 hankerings and cravings for something stronger. This 
 is because of reactions in the nerves, due to overwork 
 in ridding the system of the results of the lesser in- 
 dulgences. Rut we have referred to this elsewhere. 
 Let us pass (in to the moral and aesthetic aspect "i 
 
396 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 the question. Tirother, you are a lover of art, and 
 beauty and consistency ; you certainly have some ap- 
 preciation of nobilit}' and refinement. Vou have seen 
 some striking pictures of that Master Teacher who 
 walked o\er the hills and through the vales of Judea 
 and Galilee some eig'hteen centuries ago, whose lifcj 
 and i>recepts have in a measure influenced the civilized 
 world. Xo ranting infidel e\er finds fault with that 
 Jesus of .Xazareth. Xow suppose an artist should 
 paint a picture of the Master with a meerschaum pipe 
 in his mouth or a stain of tobacco juice running" down 
 tlie corner of his moutii and dropping on his gar- 
 ments. ( )r picture Him ever so uice with a gold or 
 sih'er tobacco box and He just in the act of taking 
 a fresh quid of fine-cut ; or picture Him in His seam- 
 less robe just in the act of taking a schooner of beer, 
 not to say a glass of whisky or drinking from a bottle. 
 How would you feel with such a picture before you, 
 and what would you say? Your thoughts, I am sure, 
 would make an excellent chapter for insertion right 
 here. Would that combination ennoble the habit or 
 degrade ihe Dix'ine Character? Suppose, again. Sister, 
 some deft artist should fashion and present you with a 
 ])icture of Mary, the mother of Jesus, or Elizabeth, 
 tlie mother of John the llaptist, with a snufif box and 
 a dip stick just in the act of indulging, would you 
 l)e j'jleased at the ha]:)])y design, or w'ould yoiu" in- 
 dignation boil at the degrading incongruity? If our 
 better natures are not entirely crushed already, they 
 will rejoice at the thought of deliverance from such 
 forbidding relationshi])s in otir owm lives. What ! 
 married to tobbaco? in love with a snuff box? a slave 
 to tin- ])ii>e or bottle? bowing down to worship at the 
 
REFORMS AND EXTREMES 397 
 
 shrine of tea and coffee? Let hnmanity as well as 
 God forbid it. Reader, there is something nobler and 
 better for us. The use of opium, cocaine, and liquor, 
 and to some extent the use of tobacco, is a direct 
 physical and financial injury to the civilized commun- 
 ity. Hence the community have a right to restrain, 
 yes, even absolutely prohibit the manufacture, sale 
 and use of these things. Trohibition with the spirit 
 of the Master in control ivould be a mighty sweeping 
 power for good. l>ut let the personal animosit}', hate 
 and ugliness be all eliminated. And let all inconsist- 
 ency disappear. Let not the fellow with the meer- 
 schaum or the cigar undertake to Icjrd it over the 
 fellow with the bottle; and let not the pious soul who 
 does her wasliing on ihe strength of a pot of tea 
 cause her indignation to be felt because her neighbor 
 braces himself for his tasks with gin or brandy, or 
 because his son drinks beer at the saloon. Indulgence 
 is indulgence. When the indiA-idual is consistently 
 organized in himself, so that he is an example of what 
 men ought to be. he will have a power for good that 
 will be felt, without any outward demonstrations. Then 
 l>ersuasion will ha\"e its legitimate value, and there 
 will be less need of force, and it force is needed it will 
 be more effective because backed by a well ordered 
 consistent life. I.ct ilu' iixlixidual ])roliibit himself 
 first, and llun in due time, il' necessary, prohibit the 
 other feilow. Self denial is prohibition at home. Pro- 
 hibition at large is trying to deny the other fellow's 
 self. Prohibition, like charity, should begin at home. 
 
THE AFTERWORD. 
 
 We have heard much all uur lives about j^ettino" 
 ready to die, as though dying was the goal, the object 
 of our eixstence. There is not a thing in nature nor 
 in the word of God suggesting either a physical or 
 moral pre])aration for death. ( )ne man, Hezekiah only, 
 was exhorted to "set his house in order" — to make his 
 wdll and appoint his successor. The entire doctrine 
 of grace is get read}^ to live. \"ery few are fit to live. 
 Once we are fit to live, dying becomes a matter of lit- 
 tle consequence. "Ye are dead and your life is hid 
 with Christ in God; when Christ, who is our life, 
 shall appear then shall ye also appear with Him in 
 glory," and "Christ hath abolished death and brought 
 life and immortalit}' to light through the Gospel." To 
 him who is in touch with the l^ivine the transition to 
 the future eternal life is practically instantaneous. It 
 is but a moment of sleeping and awakening, to the in- 
 dividual so brief that really he knows no intermission 
 between the two worlds. So death through the resur- 
 rection is abolished and life to the individual becomes 
 practically continuous, only just enough break to war- 
 rant the Apostle in saying, "The promise of the life 
 that now is and of that which is to come." And the 
 two worlds must make a "perfect splice." The future 
 eternal life begins here in this life in righteousness and 
 peace. Our respect for and appreciation of creative 
 
THE AFTERWORD 399 
 
 power is manifest in the way we use this life. To 
 sense the vakie of Hfe and appreciate its privileges 
 and respect its obligations is the beginning of the Di- 
 \'ine life. "Whereby are given unto us exceeding 
 great and precious promises, that by these ye might 
 become partakers of the Divine Nature having es- 
 caped the corruption that is in the world through 
 lust." W'e may ha\e "the promise of the life that now 
 is and of that which is to come," and these promises 
 may be "exceeding great and precious" to us. To 
 learn to care for life in all its fullness is the greatest 
 accomplishment attainable. To sense the value of and 
 appreciate it, is to value and appreciate eternal life, 
 and this opens the way to become acquainted with the 
 life giver. ' 
 
 This knowledge is infinitely superior to commercial- 
 ism and money getting and every other form of sen- 
 suality. 
 
 The attempt in the foregoing pages has been to 
 simplify the subject of Hygiene and make it attrac- 
 tive. To make it practical, the reader should put into 
 use any portion of the suggestions that seem clear. In 
 doing this, one will soon have the assurance of the re- 
 sults. There is nothing like knowing we are right 
 except being right. W^e sometimes think we know 
 we are right when we may yet have much to learn, 
 but when we intelligently experience a truth in our 
 own life there is an assurance that puts theoretical 
 knowledge in the shade. The man who learns the 
 value of some of these agencies on which the Creator 
 has made life dependent will want to know more of 
 ihem, and as his experimental knowledge increases, he 
 will be drawn out more and more toward the Creator 
 
400 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Himself, for these are the things in which the Creator 
 is interested. When we see and appreciate the work 
 of some threat architect there gradually springs up in 
 I he heart a desire to know that architect. We respect 
 and honor him and seek his acquaintance for his work's 
 sake. So, reader, we recommend to you a still further 
 >tudy of these natural things that lie so close to us, 
 and of life itself, in order that you may be drawn out 
 after the Author of life and take His Word for gaining 
 a knowledge of the life to come. 
 
 We have not told all the particulars in this little 
 book simply for want of space, and because we do 
 not desire to surfeit the reader. We have given all 
 the ])rinciples and a lot of the particulars. Xow we 
 invite criticisms and question for information. 
 
 The Modern Hygiene Publishing Company stands 
 ready to answer any in(|uiries for information and 
 l)romises faithfidly to incorporate in following" editions 
 an_\' changes that just criticism may show are neces- 
 sary. \\'e are out for progress in Health Education. 
 We are not manufacturing any articles of food nor an}- 
 health api)liances and we have nothing to sell. At 
 the same time we will assist any correspondent to ob- 
 tain any articles for M}-gicnic use which thev cannot 
 readil}' obtain in their own \icinity. 
 
 The writer has enjoyed this effort at interesting 
 you more deeply in the subject of Life, ami he hopes 
 your reading has. ])vvu ;i --ouree of ])leasure and j)rofit 
 to you. At some future time we may meet again to 
 consider more fully some of the ])oints that liaxe been 
 l)ut lightly touclKMl ill this \<ihnne. rntil that time 
 we ])id \<)U a eheerlul. e<iuragt-ous and pi'( iL;ressi\"e, 
 Adieu. 
 
APPENDIX A. 
 Disinfection and Disinfectants. 
 
 just a few words about the subject iu general be- 
 fore giving" some simple measures applicable with 
 safety by an intelligent person in any home. Many 
 diseases are known to be caused or influenced by the 
 presence of certain miscroscopic organisms called 
 bacteria, or germs. Because the sjireading of the 
 germs scatters the disease, they are termed infectious, 
 hence the importance of ]n-eventing, as far as possible, 
 the dissemination of these active causes. 
 
 Two means are at liand to accomplish this — quar- 
 antine and (lisinl\'Cli( m. 'I'o acc()m])lish the first, 
 isolate the j^atient. refusing access on the part of all 
 but those whose duty it is to care for the sick one. 
 and they in turn must not mingle with those outside. 
 All articles coming from the sick room must be dis- 
 infected before being haiulled by those whom we 
 are seeking to protect. 
 
 Disinfection. 
 
 i'irst a few detinilions. 
 
 Sepsis means ])utrefac' ion from presence of germs, 
 and such a ])arl is septic or infected. 
 Aseptic means without sepsis. 
 Antiseptic means oi)posed to sepsis. 
 To sterilize is to rk-strov germs. 
 
402 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Hence any substance or means used to destroy 
 germs is an antiseptic, or a disinfectant; and their 
 proper use aids greatly botii in limiting the spread of 
 disease to others, and modifying its course in those 
 infected. The following simple measures are easy of 
 application, and safe. 
 
 Heat. 
 
 The first in importance when applicable, which it 
 is to all dishes, clothes, beddings, etc., which will 
 not be injured by boiling water. Useless articles 
 should be burned. 
 
 Many diseases, especially those of the intestinal 
 tract, such as typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera, etc.. 
 are transmitted by polluted water, or milk, and so 
 all drinking water and all milk used, should be boiled 
 when these diseases arc prevalent. 
 
 Peroxide of Hydrogen. 
 
 This can always be obtained at any drug store, 
 and is excellent for cleansing any wound or cavity 
 containing" pus, in the presence of which it causes a 
 brisk foaming, and so should be used cautiously if 
 the ^cavity does not have a free opening. Otherwise 
 the tension caused by the gas formation may become 
 very painful, and even be dangerous in certain loca- 
 tions. Apply directly with a medicine dropper, either 
 pure or diluted with 2 to 4 parts of sterilized water. 
 Wounds cleansed in this way may be dusted with 
 boracic acid and dressings applied. 
 
 Boric or Borate Acid. 
 
 A mild and harmless antiseptic. Fill a bottle three- 
 
APPENDIX A 403 
 
 quarters full of water that has just been boiled, and 
 add the powder, shaking- thoroughly till the undis- 
 solved residue falls to the bottom. This "saturated 
 solution" is an efficient disinfectant for sensitive parts, 
 and is the essential basis of a number of "eye-waters." 
 The same can be used for cleansing the sore mouths of 
 babies, as well as the nipple before it is given the 
 l^reast. 
 
 Prepared on a larger scale and diluted with three 
 parts of sterile water, the above solution is very 
 valuable in irrigating the bladder in cases of chronic 
 inflammation of that organ, but care must be taken 
 that all vessels used in the operation are sterile. First 
 lessons in this are best taken from* a physican or 
 trained nurse. 
 
 Permanganate Potash. 
 
 Is \-aluable for cleansing foul ulcers, such as can- 
 cers, etc., where there are strong odors. Persons 
 with foul smelling feet will find this one of the best 
 deodorants. Use one dram of the crystals to a pint 
 nf water. If too strong the skin will be stained. 
 Either this or pure peroxide can be sprayed into the 
 throat with an atomizer in diphtheria, tonsilitis or 
 scarlet fever. 
 
 Quick Lime. 
 
 Quick lime applied liberally to cess pools and privy 
 \aults will do much to disinfect them, while cellars 
 and musty basements can be sweetened by a liberal 
 use of freshlv made whitewash. 
 
404 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 Cloride of Lime. 
 
 I'^our ounces of this to one gallon of water makes 
 a solution to be used in the vessel recei\ in;^' the bowel 
 discharges from typhoid patients. Co\er the dis- 
 charges and allow to stand one hour ])efore commit- 
 ting them to the drain or \ault. 
 
 Room Disinfection. 
 
 How to disinfect a room after having a contagious 
 disease is of imi)ortance to those hexond the service 
 of the health office, and the following points will be 
 found useful. The isolation room should never have 
 had surplus rugs or draperies, but once occupied by a 
 contagious disease, none should be removed unless 
 for the purpose of disinfection, \\dien ready to dis- 
 infect, paste strips of paper over the cracks to make 
 as airtight as possible. Loosen \\\) all bedding" or 
 clothes by hanging o\er chairs, or lines stretched 
 across the room, and then use either of tlie followins' 
 
 '!^ 
 
 Sulphur. 
 
 FMace a trd) containing two inches of water in the 
 center of the room. L'])on some bricks in the tul) 
 ])lace an old kettle containing three pounds of sul- 
 pliur for each 1000 cul)ic feet of space. This will cor- 
 rode metals and bleach dry goods. Tliis can be pur- 
 chased in conxenient candle form at almost anv drug 
 store will) full directions. 
 
 Formalin. 
 
 Get a bottle of formalin at the drug stc^^e, and add 
 
 ten times the xolume of water. Sprinkle this liberally 
 
 .over bedding, rugs and carpets.- Wring sheets or 
 
APPENDIX B 405 
 
 cloths from the same and hang over a line in the room. 
 Leave room closed for 12 hours. This will not injure 
 any fabric. The above can be purchased with full 
 directions accompanying. 
 
 Any one using these measures can feel that reason- 
 ably efficient methods of disinfection have been used 
 in each instance, and these illustrative uses will sug- 
 gest others where the same means may l)e success- 
 fully employed. 
 
 B. 
 
 The Enema. 
 
 This consists of taking water into the bowels lor 
 the purpose chiefly of relie\ing constipation or piles. 
 It may be of any desired temperature. The most 
 successful method of giving the enema is by using 
 the long colon tube and the fountain or siphon syr- 
 inge. Fill the fountain and hang it up about four 
 to six feet above the patient. Now having con- 
 nected the colon tube with the syringe hose, oil the 
 tube for some distance, and start the water so as tti 
 till the hose and tube. And then with the patient 
 lying on the back insert the tube in the Ixnvel for 
 two or three inches, start the water flowing and 
 gradually ])ress the tube u])\vanl until most of the 
 tube is in the ])o\vel. This carries the water back 
 above the rectuni into the colon where it is needed. 
 This method i)revents stretching and disabling the 
 lectum as is often done when the enema is given for 
 a long time with the ordinary short tube. 
 
 Caution. — .\lwavs start the water so as tu till the 
 
406 ESSENTIALS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 tube and thus prevent injecting air into the bowels; 
 and introduce the water slowly so as not to cause 
 painful distension of the bowel. 
 
 The Douche. 
 
 This consists of water" of any desired temperature 
 taken into the vagina with the patient lying on the 
 back on a board which drains into the bath tub or 
 other receptacle. The same kind of an apparatus is 
 needed as in giving the enema, except a larger foun- 
 tain and a special tube instead of the colon tube. 
 
 The chief advantage of the douche is gained in 
 taking it long continued, say for twenty-five or thirty 
 minutes, very hot, about 116 to 118 degrees. This is 
 the best remedy for congestion of these parts. To 
 make it most effective the outside parts should be 
 gathered up aljout the tube, thus gently holding the 
 water in until every fold of the vagina is thoroughly 
 exposed to the hot water, then let it all escape. This 
 should be repeated several times. 
 
 If von want to understand the philosophy of rc- 
 lic\ing congestion with heat, look at the washer- 
 woman's hands after they have been in hot water for 
 thirty miiuites. The best time to take the douche is 
 on retiring, or else rest two hours afterward. 
 
 Treatment of Glandular Swelling. 
 
 In view of the shrinking effects of hot water, nearly 
 all glandular swellings like Quinsy should be treated 
 with long continued fomentations and followed with 
 the all night, and if necessary, the all day heating 
 compress. In quinsy hot steam inhalations are most 
 excellent. Set the tea kettle on a little oil, or gas 
 
APPENDIX C 407 
 
 stove, with only a small quantity of water, and take 
 the steam through a long roll of manila paper. 
 
 a 
 
 A False Notion About Flesh Eating. 
 
 The sentiment prevails quite generally among peo- 
 ple who have been for a long time accustomed to 
 meat eating, that there is a specially superior flavor 
 about flesh of different kinds that makes it much 
 more palatable than various kinds of grains, fruits 
 and vegetables. This notion will evaporate at once 
 when you stop to consider how much salt and pepper 
 and thyme and garlic and onion and sage and sum- 
 mer savory and bay leaves and cloves and parsley, in 
 the way of condiments ; and how many ordinar}' 
 vegetables are used to give the meat flavor and make 
 it toothsome and tasty. Flesh, generally speaking, 
 that is not fixed up with some of these things would 
 go begging on many tables. Sometimes the flesh has 
 to be scorched a little to give it a desirable flavor. 
 Now in wide contrast with this, very few of the 
 grains, fruits and vegetables have need of anything 
 l)ul a little salt or sugar to make them fully palatable, 
 and most grain foods become much more acceptable 
 when once the person has habited himself to using 
 them with a trifle of salt only. 
 
 If it took as much seasoning to make \egetal)lc 
 foods acceptable to the taste, as it does to make meats 
 eatable, people might well cry out against tlicm as 
 articles of food. .\ still closer analysis of the question 
 
408 ESSENTIALS TO IvIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 of appetite for and flavor of flesh foods would result 
 in the conclusion that the principal cause of the spe- 
 cial cravings for them is the presence of the toxic ele- 
 ments in these foods. It certainly is not their specific 
 flavor that makes them so much more called for than 
 vegetable foods generally, for as the above considera- 
 tions show, most of the flavorings used to make them 
 ])alatable come from the vegetable world. 
 
 What gives the meat the little flavor it naturally 
 has, is the excrementitious waste in the venous cir- 
 culation as found in the juices which may be pressed 
 or washed out of it. When the juice is once ex- 
 tracted there is scarce any flavor left in the flesh more 
 than is found in the white of eggs or gluten. And the 
 nutrition is found in the tasteless fiber and not in the 
 "beef juice." The modern mixtures of peanuts and 
 gluten which "taste like meat," receive their sugges- 
 tion of meat fla\or from the slight scorching to which 
 the gluten and proteid of the nuts receives in the 
 ])rocess of manufacture. WHien cither lean meat or 
 gluten or white of eggs is scorched in cooking an ex- 
 ])ert can scarcely tell which it is by the smell. 
 
 We do not see any special advantage in cultivating 
 this artificial taste, especially when the foods used to 
 imitate it are made more indigestible by the scorching 
 which they receive. 
 
 Many false notions will disappear from human 
 minds when the a])]ietite is drawn away from its un- 
 natural ways and brought back to purer, cleaner and 
 less stimulating articles of food. 
 
•APPENDIX D 409 
 
 D 
 
 Appendicitis, 
 
 If you happen to be taken with a severe pain in the 
 upper part of the right groin or with a steady grum- 
 bling ache that gradually increases, you may wisely 
 suspect appendicitis. It may have been caused by a 
 long-continued habit of constipation, or it may have 
 come from an acrid watery condition of the bowels. 
 If the suspicion overtakes you that you have it, or if 
 the Doctor says you've got it, don't get excited and 
 lose your head. Calmly, quietly do one of two things ; 
 cither go right to the hospital without delay and get 
 right up on the operating table and have the appendix 
 removed, or follow at once the course of treatment 
 we will here mark out. Get two good large hot water 
 rubber bottles and fifteen or twenty pounds of ice. 
 Fill the water bottles two-thirds full with water as 
 hot as can be borne, taking pains to press out the air. 
 Place these at the left side and the back over the 
 short ribs. Now wrap a piece of ice the size of hall 
 a brick in a couple of thicknesses of common towel- 
 ing and place this over the appendix. After half an 
 hour remove the ice pack and put the hot water bottle 
 over the appendix for five minutes. Then replace the 
 ice. Repeat this every half-hour, and keep the treat- 
 ment up all day and all night and all the next day 
 and night, if necessary, until the uneasiness and pain 
 have subsided. Then keep quiet for a few days in 
 bed. If there is any suggestion of slowness or any 
 kind of disturbance in the bowels, a large hot enema 
 should be taken with the coU.n tube at a tempera- 
 
410 ESSENTIALS TO EIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 ture of 108° or 110°, containing a tablespoonful of 
 salt to a quart of water. It is better always not to 
 neglect to do this thoroughly on the start, and once 
 daily as long as the trouble continues. 
 
 The towel wrapping the ice must be frequently 
 wrung out to prevent the bed from getting soaked. 
 
 A better plan is to use the rubber ice bag, and a hot 
 blanket pack from the ribs to the feet, with bricks or 
 hot water bottles to the sides and limbs. 
 
 This sanitarium method of treating this trouble 
 is bound to be successful if used at first, and it is much 
 preferred to surgery, especially for those who do not 
 enjoy the idea of being "cut." 
 
 Those who are not well equipped with apparatus 
 at home, and those who have had little experience in 
 caring for the sick would do well to either go quickly 
 to some good nearby sanitarium or send for a good 
 physician and nurse who are well instructed in this 
 line of treatment. 
 
 As in Diphtheria, delays are dangerous, so prompt 
 action is necessary. Indeed it is never wise to neglect 
 any danger signals that nature displays. But it is 
 never best to get frightened so badly that we cannot 
 deliberately choose the natural common sense way 
 of treating physical ailments before they become dan- 
 gerous through neglect. This disease is only an in- 
 flammation of the appendix', caused by irritating- 
 foods, or ferments from 1 ad combinations of good 
 food. It is our opinion that yeast ferments have much 
 to do with producing the irritations that lead to this 
 dangerous malady. 
 
 Perhaps we ought to say that in the foregoing we 
 have supposed the case to be the first attack one has 
 
APPENDIX D 411 
 
 ever had. As we have said, such a case if taken 
 early will almost surely yield to the course of treat- 
 ment suggested. But if it is the third or fourth attack 
 there, is greater danger and all the more necessity for 
 prompt action in endeavoring to abort the disease. 
 If the case is neglected, say three or four days, until 
 pus has gathered in the appendix, there is little doubt 
 that an operation is much the safest thing. 
 
 The presence of pus in the appendix can be surely 
 diagnosed by only one thing, and that is called the 
 "blood count." Normally there is only a certain 
 number of white blood corpuscles — leucocytes — in the 
 blood. Whenever there is a pus-forming inflamma- 
 tion at any point in the vital domain these leucocytes 
 begin to increase in the blood with great rapidity 
 in order to conquer the inflammation, if possible. The 
 doctor who is given, through education, to operating, 
 will do but little for the patient until the blood count 
 shows the presence of pus in the ap^^endix ; then he 
 will hasten to operate. The physician who trusts more 
 to preventive measures, will do all in his power to 
 prevent pus from forming, and thus make the work 
 of operating less necessary. 
 
 It is astonishing how numerous the cases of this 
 serious trouble are becoming. It is wise to curb the 
 appetite for constipating and irritating foods, and to 
 learn to keep the limbs and feet warm so as to pre- 
 vent, as far as possible, all pelvic and abdominal con- 
 gestions. A most important matter must be again 
 suggested — keep the moisture of the bod\- at a max- 
 imum state of fluidity. This will do perhaps more 
 than any other thing to prevent intlammations. Over- 
 work may exhaust vitality, in a feeble patient, so that 
 
412 ESSENTlAIvS TO LIFE AND HEALTH 
 
 if there is a tendency to bowel sensitiveness, an 
 old case might more easily recur. From our first re- 
 mark it might be suggested that we place operating 
 first. Not so, however ; we say do all you can to 
 prevent the serious phases of this trouble by nipping 
 it in the bud, if possible. Cutting is not very desir- 
 able on account of the danger from the anesthetic; 
 and we are not (|uite convinced yet that the Creator 
 made a mistake in puting the appendix in the human 
 intestines. VVe think the mistakes are on the part 
 of humanity in not caring properly for their heaven- 
 <irdaincd heritage. 
 
 The Last Word. 
 
 The thoughtful reader who has grasped the great 
 truth, that "Nine-tenths of all the diseases which flesh 
 is heir to are due to mental causes," will not fail to 
 appreciate the sentiments expressed on "Self-Control," 
 nor the chapters on "Habits," "Life and Labor," and 
 "Transformations." He will realize that everything 
 which legitimately tends to produce a calm, hopeful, 
 (juict, positive and self-controlled state of mind, must 
 stand as among the important things on which life 
 and all its successes here and hereafter must de- 
 pend. . 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Abdominal Girdle 175 
 
 Acquiring Chest Poise and Development 167 
 
 Acute Catarrh of the Bowels 200 
 
 Ache, That Awful, in Lower Brain 266 
 
 According to My Experience 295 
 
 Action of Stimulants, l'"alse Notions About 63 
 
 Adverse Mental Conditions 99 
 
 A False Notion About Flesh Eating 407 
 
 Ague, Chills and Fever 246 
 
 Air Bath ; 168 
 
 Air An Essential 16 
 
 Air Considered 21 
 
 An Illustration 104, 109, 147 
 
 Anemia ., 229 
 
 An Anecdote ....: 119 
 
 .\ncient and Modern Alike 141 
 
 .Vn Inspiration . 122 
 
 Antitoxins and Animal Serums 331 
 
 Appetite 67, 68, 325 
 
 .\ppc'ndix A : 401 
 
 Appendix R 405 
 
 Appendi.x C 407 
 
 Appendix D 409 
 
 Appendicitis 409 
 
 .\ro These Philosophies Christian? 135 
 
 .Vrthritis Deformans 202 
 
 Are There Otiier Essentials to Life and Health? 2>Z7) 
 
 A Systematic Standard Needed 10 
 
 A Sleight-of-Mind Performance „.116, 117 
 
 .\ssurance 296 
 
 Asthma 211 
 
 .•\ Thorough Classification Needed 11 
 
 .\uthor's i)ependcnce, The 11 
 
 i'a'sis of Health and Christianity 98 
 
 Backache '. 266. 321 
 
 Hack to Nature 345 
 
 Bad Combinations 2S0 
 
 Beans, How to Cook 278 
 
 Best Mental Pemcdy 102 
 
 Bcd-wettinir 21 I 
 
414 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Bible Reveals a Creator 105 
 
 Bilious Troubles 220 
 
 Bladder Troubles 206 
 
 Black-heads 252 
 
 Blood Poisoning 242 
 
 Blood Purifiers 320 
 
 Boils 252 
 
 Boric or Boracic Acid 402 
 
 Boiled Wheat, Rye or Corn 273 
 
 Brain Workers 322 
 
 Broken Vessels 149 
 
 Bread, Sterilizing - 275 
 
 Breathing, How Performed 163, 166 
 
 Bright's Disease 206 
 
 Bruises .. 244 
 
 Bronchitis 223 
 
 Bubonic Plague 89, 318 • 
 
 Bulk in Food 271 
 
 Burns 243 
 
 Buttermilk 201 
 
 Buttermilk Fad 294 
 
 Cabbage, How to Cook 278 
 
 Causes of Disease 85 
 
 Catarrh of Bowels, Acute 200 
 
 Catarrh of the Bowels, Chronic 201 
 
 Catarrh 216 
 
 Christian Science 58, 116, 118. 122 
 
 Christians Will Not Brag 113 
 
 Chest Development, How Acquired 167 
 
 Choking 231 
 
 Chills and Chilliness 245 
 
 Chills and Fever : v 246 
 
 Chickenpox 249 
 
 Chafing 252 
 
 Chewing 271 
 
 Changing from Cold to Hot Atmosphere 301 
 
 Chloride of Lime 404 
 
 Change of Tune 313 
 
 Clothing an Essential 16 
 
 Clotliing Considered 31 
 
 Clothing, The Law of 38 
 
 Cleanliness an Aid to Cure 188 
 
 Correct Standard of Classification 11 
 
 Coffee : 66, 395 
 
 Condiments .— 282 
 
 Complete Application of the Law of Rest 103 
 
 Counterfeits and the Genuine 142 
 
 Cool Hand Bathing 171 
 
 Coo! Shower Bath 172 
 
INDEX 415 
 
 PACK 
 
 Colds 260 
 
 Cold Mitten Friction : 174 
 
 Cold in Mead, To Break Up 221 
 
 Congestion of Lungs 228 
 
 Constipation 198 
 
 Contagious Diseases 249 
 
 Comedo 252 
 
 Coiton Oil 276 
 
 Corn Oil 277 
 
 Combinations, Good and Bad 280 
 
 Creator 14 
 
 Creator Misrepresented 96 
 
 Creator, Evidences of 104, 105 
 
 Creator Left Out of Worldly Systems ' 105 
 
 Crinklets 274 
 
 Cucumbers , 278 
 
 Damp Beds, Diseases Due to 255 
 
 Development of Breathing Power 162 
 
 Developing Vital Resistance 186 
 
 Deforming Rheumatism, Miscalled 202 
 
 Dextrinization of Foods 287 
 
 Depurating System, The 297- 
 
 Distilled Water 25, 26, 49 
 
 Diaphragm, Action of (See Cut) 45, 164. 165 
 
 Disease and Its Causes 85 
 
 Diabetes 205 
 
 Diphtheria .. 225 
 
 Disinfection and Disinfectants 401 
 
 Don't Try to Be a Hero 301 
 
 Don't Soak Too Much .- 301 
 
 Douche, The 406 
 
 Drugs 61 
 
 Dry Mitten Friction 168 
 
 Drinking of Water 48, 50, 170 
 
 Dress 393 
 
 Dyspepsia _ 194 
 
 Eating, The Law of 50 
 
 Eczema 251 
 
 Education, False About Drugs 63 
 
 Education, 'irue Health 10 
 
 Edison, A Story of 11 
 
 Effects of Stimulants (>^' 
 
 Effects of Flesh on Kittens and Puppies 67 
 
 Elements of Power, The 149 
 
 Electric Pads •.. 169 
 
 Electricity 185 
 
 Emanuel Movement 116, 127, 134 
 
 Enema, The 405 
 
 Entire Wheat Flour 272 
 
416 INDEX 
 
 PAGB 
 
 Epilepsy 213 
 
 Epicure, The 271 
 
 Evolution 96 
 
 Evidence of a Creator : 104, 105 
 
 Evening Meal, The 283 
 
 Exercise an Essentia! _ 16 
 
 Exercise Considered 32, 297 
 
 Exercise, Law of 55 
 
 External Uses of Water 171 
 
 Exhalation Tube 300 
 
 Exposure When Weary . 302 
 
 Extremes . 388 
 
 Eyes, Care of 263 
 
 Favorable Mental Conditions 97 
 
 Fainting .. 211 
 
 Falling Ilair, To Prevent 254 
 
 Fellowship 95, 105, 107, 110, 112, 145, 146 
 
 Felons 251 
 
 Fireless Cooker, The , 275 
 
 Financial Prosperity Tempts to Luxury 281 
 
 Flesh Eating, Effects on Kittens and Puppies 67 
 
 Flavoring tlie Drinking Water 292 
 
 Food, an Essential 16 
 
 Food Considered "28 
 
 Forced Exhalation : 162 
 
 Forced Inhalation 163 
 
 Fomentations 172 
 
 Formalin . 404 
 
 Free Use of Sugar and Condiments . 282 
 
 Gall Stones 256 
 
 Germicides 182 
 
 General Remarks 268 
 
 Gifts of Healings and Miracles -. 77 
 
 Glasses, Examination for 305 
 
 Glandular Swellings, Treatment of 406 
 
 Good Combinations . 280 
 
 Grape Cure, The 201 
 
 Graham Flour • 272 
 
 Gruels : 275 
 
 Hard Water 292 
 
 Hay Fever 211 
 
 Habits ; 350 
 
 Heathenism, How Developed ...'. 112 
 
 I Tcatinof Compress _ .'. 174 
 
 I loart Trouble 208 
 
 Headaches .. 258 
 
 Here Is An Old One 303 
 
 I Icalth Catching '. :.;. 309 
 
 Heat :....:.::.........:. 402 
 
INDEX ' 417 
 
 PAGB 
 
 Hiccough 213 
 
 Highly Dextrinized Foods 287 
 
 High Heels 321 
 
 House Building, Hints on 329 
 
 How to Reform 67 
 
 How to Eat 286 
 
 How to Give a Sweat 178 
 
 How to Stop a Hacking Cough 303 
 
 How to Blow the Nose 305 
 
 How to Empty the Cavity of the Middle Ear 305 
 
 How to Be Fat ' 306 
 
 How to Be Lean 306 
 
 How to Sweeten a Cistern 316 
 
 How Do You Feel? 323 
 
 How One Kind-hearted Woman Failed 2>72i 
 
 Holding the Breath 231 
 
 Hook-worm Disease 217 
 
 Human Privilege 9 
 
 Hunger and Appetite 325 
 
 Hygiene, Origin of Term 9 
 
 Hypnotism 59. 131 
 
 Hysteria 231 
 
 Ice Poultice 174 
 
 Inanimate Elements Praise the Creator 14 
 
 Influenza 227 
 
 Insomnia 232 
 
 Insect Bites 317 
 
 Incentives to Reform 326 
 
 Itching (See Eczema) 252 
 
 Laws of Nature Divine 14 
 
 Laws of Life Defined 38 
 
 Laws of Sunlight and Clothing 38 
 
 Law of Breathing 45 
 
 Law of Water Drinking 48 
 
 Law of Eating 50 
 
 Law of Exercise 55 
 
 Law of Rest ' 56, 92, 144 
 
 Law of Rest Analyzed 93 
 
 La Grippe _ 227 
 
 Little things '. 295 
 
 Little and Often 303 
 
 Life and Labor 37l) 
 
 Life Insurance 386 
 
 Locomotor Ataxia 267 
 
 Lung Packing 167 
 
 Lungs, Congestion of 228 
 
 Lungs. Inflammation of 229 
 
 "Man, Whence Docs He Come? - 15 
 
 Massage 180 
 
418 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Mental Causes and Mental Remedies 11, 91, 101 
 
 Meat Eating, Objections to 51, 52 
 
 Mental, Causes, Adverse 99 
 
 Menstruation 241 
 
 Measles 249 
 
 Men of Value 345 
 
 Milk, Sterilization and Pasteurization of 52, 53, 316 
 
 Milk, Pure from Healthy Cow 53 
 
 Miraculous Healing 79 
 
 Mind Cure 101 
 
 Migraine , 260 
 
 Mixtures and Variety 278 
 
 More About Variety in Foods 281 
 
 Modern Theory, The 139 
 
 Mouth, The 270 
 
 More About the Law of Exercise 370 
 
 Mumps 249 
 
 Mushes 287 
 
 Mustard Oil, White 276 
 
 My Experience 295 
 
 Narcotics 61 
 
 Natural and Spiritual Rest Contrasted 144 
 
 Nature's Calls 297 
 
 Nasal Douche 217 
 
 New Thought 116, 123, 127 
 
 Neutral Bath 176 
 
 Neuralgia 204 
 
 Neurasthenia 233 
 
 Nightmare 214, 284 
 
 Night Terrors _., 214, 284 
 
 Objections to Flesh Eating 51, 52 
 
 Obedience, Instinctive Ill 
 
 Occultism No Part of Christianity 113 
 
 Occult Forces 134 
 
 Oils for Cooking 276 
 
 Oil Rubs 172, 174, 303 
 
 Old Sores i 253 
 
 Old Age :. 256 
 
 On Bathing 318 
 
 Opium 395 
 
 Opinions of Medical Men ^ 69 
 
 Osteopathy 181, 314 
 
 Patent Medicines _. 61, 72 
 
 Partial and Counterfeit Applications of the Law of Rest 114 
 
 Pantheism Reinstated 129 
 
 Paralysis , 234 
 
 Pain 264 
 
 Painful Menstruation 241 " 
 
 Panting or Vibratory Breathing 162 
 
INDEX 419 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Peanut Oil ^ 276 
 
 Personality, A Sense of 95 
 
 Perfect Peace ; 98 
 
 Persistence Required 270 
 
 Peroxide of Hydrogen 243, 402 
 
 Permanganate of Potash 403 
 
 Piles 199 
 
 Pneumonia 229 
 
 Poverty Not a Complete Excuse 321 
 
 Pointers 270 
 
 Precautions for the Night 298 
 
 Progress, An Age of 9 
 
 Protection When Reclining 302 
 
 Proud Flesh 244 
 
 Principles Set Forth 12 
 
 Practice Suggested 12 
 
 Prevention of Colds 260 
 
 Physical Remedies for Disease 151 
 
 Physical Training 307 
 
 Psoriasis „ 251 
 
 Purpose of the Writer 10 
 
 Pustules 252 
 
 Quantity of Food Required '. , 285 
 
 Quackery 346 
 
 Quick Lime 403 
 
 Race Suicide and Sexual Sins 334 
 
 Rest, An Essential ; 16 
 
 Rest Considered . 3i 
 
 Rest, Law of 56 
 
 Rest, Spiritual 60, 99, 112 
 
 Rest Cure 158 
 
 Reactions ; 169 
 
 Reflex Disturbances 258 
 
 Regulate the Appetite ; 270 
 
 Regularity 289 
 
 Relaxation 308 
 
 Responsibility 315 
 
 Reforms and Extremes 388 
 
 Reforms in Diet 389 
 
 Reforms in Dress .'. 393 
 
 Rheumatism 202 
 
 Rising Above Trouble 141 
 
 Rice, Unpolished .. 27A 
 
 Room Disinfection 404 
 
 Salt 290 
 
 Salt Glows 1 7^ 
 
 Salt Rlicum 253 
 
 Scarlet Fever 24Q 
 
 Self- Salvation Left Out . 113 
 
420 INDEX 
 
 PAGB 
 
 Self-Denial 310 
 
 Sense of Personality 95 
 
 Sense of Weight at Stomach 304 
 
 Shortening 276 
 
 Skin Foods 320 
 
 Smoker's Opinion, The 65 
 
 Smallpox 250 
 
 Snoring . 284 
 
 Snuffling Cats and Dogs 303 
 
 Snuff . 395 
 
 Sore Eyes :... 255 
 
 Soups 275 
 
 Soap 304 
 
 Soft Drinks 317 
 
 Spiritual Rest 60, 94, 112 
 
 Spray Bath 172 
 
 Spasms 230 
 
 Sprains — .: 244 
 
 Stimulants 61 
 
 Strong Drink 62 
 
 Stomach, Prolapse of 240 
 
 St. Vitus' Dance -. ; 264 
 
 Sterilizing Bread 275 
 
 Sterilizing Milk, Cream and Water 316 
 
 Sterilizing Strawberries, Etc 316 
 
 Study This Subject 34S 
 
 Sunlight an Essential 16 
 
 Sunlight Considered 17 
 
 Sunlight, Law of 38 
 
 Substitutes for Tea and Coffee , 294 
 
 Suggestion 128 
 
 Subconscious Mind, The ■- 130 
 
 Subliminal Consciousness 130 
 
 Success 385 
 
 Sun Baths .-. 156 
 
 Sun Cholera Mixture, or Panama Cholera Cure 200 
 
 Surgery — 188, 189 
 
 Surgical Adhesive Strip 243 
 
 Sugar ^ 282 
 
 Superstition •. 308 
 
 Sulphur 404 
 
 Sweating 320 
 
 Tabular Views 153, 155 
 
 Tape Worm .' 219 
 
 I'emperance Cause, Weakness of 64 
 
 Tea 66, 291, 395 
 
 Tea and Coffee, Substitutes for 294 
 
 Testimonial, A (Verse) ^ : 75, 76 
 
 Tensing Exercises 181 
 
INDEX 421 
 
 PAGE 
 
 "The First Man Is of the Earth Earthy" 13 
 
 The Seven Essentials 16 
 
 Three Great Systems of Mind Cure 115 
 
 The Real Christian Hope 137 
 
 The God Within 138 
 
 The Afterword 398 
 
 Too Little Known of Hygiene 9 
 
 To Break Up a Cold in the Head _ 227 
 
 Tobacco 62, 39 j 
 
 Treatment of Diseases 193 
 
 Transformations 379 
 
 Transformations of Energy Into Material Forms 380 
 
 Transformations from Vegetable to Animal Forms 381 
 
 Transformations That Will Endure 384 
 
 Tricliina Spiralis 219 
 
 Tuberculosis of the Lungs 220 
 
 Typhoid Fever 24(i 
 
 Use of Air, or Breathing as a Remedy 16(1 
 
 Uric Acid and Fruits '. 296 
 
 Variety and Frequency of Meals 54 
 
 Vaccination ■ 1§3 
 
 Varicose LHcers 253 
 
 Variety in Foods, More About 281 
 
 Variety Stimulates to Overeating ....1 281 
 
 Variety, Safe If ' : 282 
 
 Vegetation, How Produced 13 
 
 Vermifuges li^2 
 
 Vibratory Breathing 162 
 
 Vocal Cords, to Develop 301 
 
 Water an Essential 16 
 
 Water Considered ^^ 
 
 Water Drinking, Law of 48 
 
 Water Filter. How to Make (See Cut) 49 
 
 Water Still, How to Make 49 
 
 Water Sterilization 49, 316 
 
 Water. Amount of Needed — 50 
 
 Water as a Medicine 170, 171 
 
 Warts Disappear Sometimes 59 
 
 Waist Reform 310 
 
 Weakness of Modern Man, The 140 
 
 Weight Lifting 166 
 
 Weeping Eczema 253 
 
 Whooping Cough 249 
 
 Whole Wheat I'lour : n^- 
 
 Who Are Safe Guides? 3.^*' 
 
 What Shall We Call This System? 341 
 
 Worrying 56 
 
 Worrving, An Experience - ^"^ 
 
 Words of Empliasis I'^l 
 
 Wounds .. . 243 
 
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